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A Grow HR retail client called us to say they’d received personal grievances for unjustified dismissal of two staff who’d had their employment ended due to...

Heading into Covid-19 lockdown businesses relied on business interruption and force majeure clauses in employment agreements to make decisions about how th...

The challenges in Auckland with the recent COVID-19 clusters make it timely to consider how restructuring and redundancies could be mitigated. Recruiting t...

Recently Stats NZ released the June 2020 wage inflation information. The headline stats were that for the year to June 2020.

Applications for the Resurgence Wage Subsidy are expected to be able to be made by the end of this week. This Wage Subsidy is in recognition of the current...

This is the Government’s message from last night as the country moves to COVID-19 Alert Levels at midday today. Keeping staff informed remains paramount. E...

Grow HR Complimentary Briefings – Employment Update this August:

In the June-July-August 2020 issue of our newsletter we look at: Creating Job Opportunities, Employer-Assisted Work Visas, Holidays & Leave Calculations, a...

The Employment Relations Authority has started to determine COVID-19 related cases with the first three matters going in the employees' favour. The key mes...

Underpayment of holidays and leave have recently featured in the headlines again with MYOB announcing that seven of its payroll softwares may not have been...

Immigration NZ are continuing to work through changes to how employer-assisted temporary work visas are approved. This is in response to planned system cha...

We're in a unique period where business is being significantly impacted by COVID-19, citizens and residents are choosing to return to New Zealand, and migr...

In this video Mandy outlines some key information that applies to staff who are back at work, the extension to the Wage Subsidy, annual holidays, and the n...

The move to COVID-19 Alert Level 2 this week has created a new set of questions as employers consider how to increase or restart operations, or decide what...

It’s now week 5 of the lockdown but at 11.59pm next Monday 27 April 2020 we exit COVID-19 Alert Level 4 and from Tuesday morning we’ll be at Level 3.

As yet there is no decision or clarity on when we might move from the current COVID-19 Alert Level 4. However, the Government today provided more informati...

The Government has announced it's going to pour $25m into free specialist advice for SMEs. These services will be delivered via approved providers such as ...

As part of Hawke’s Bay Business Hub’s series of FREE VIRTUAL WORKSHOPS Grow HR are running sessions via the video conferencing looking at People Management...

In this COVID-19 update Laura wraps up week 1 of the COVID-19 Alert Level 4 Nationwide Lockdown. We've also got some wise words from Mandy that all New Zea...

In this COVID-19 video update Mandy looks at where things are at with the Wage Subsidy and Leave Payment (now folded into the Wage Subsidy), along with som...