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The use of health and safety prequalification processes have become increasingly popular this year. If you engage contractors to work for you, or if you ar...

Once again 90-day trial periods have been hitting headlines as individuals challenge their former employer’s application of the statutory 90-day trial peri...

Hawke’s Bay is currently facing one its most significant community, health and business interruption events.  It is currently estimated that around 2,000 p...

Keen basketball fans may have seen NBA superstar Kevin Durant has agreed to sign with the Golden State Warriors for the next two years. Closer to home, we ...

Drug and alcohol testing in the workplace hit the headlines again yesterday when a former Envirowaste worker was awarded over $32,000 without deduction aft...

Making headlines earlier this month was the news that not all government employees have been paid holiday pay correctly. Others have come out to say that t...

These first couple of weeks in April are certainly more than just the beginning of the financial year for a lot of companies. If this wasn't enough to be f...

View Director Murray Cowan's presentation on the challenges of getting the best out of young workers who may be in their first job.

View Grow HR's Health and Safety Consultant; Andrew Morton presentation on the legal obligations for employers around hazard identification and management.

View HR Consultant Mandy Cartwright's presentation on tips and tricks to help employers make sure they get their recruitment processes right...

View Human Resources Consultant Lynette Blackburn presentation on how to manage “sickies”.

View our Employment Relations Specialist Gerrad Brimble's presentation on the benefit to businesses and the key requirements to consider when using the 90 ...

Read about Bills in Parliament, Getting the Language Right and Pay Controls...

Read how the The Vulnerable Children Act 2014 has now been passed. 

Read about the Employment Standards Bill the Government is expected to introduce to Parliament later this year...

Grow Hr is now in Napier! This is an exciting development for our team at Grow HR and we look forward to the closer contact with our clients around the Nap...

Read the Hawke's Bay Today article about Grow HR - HR firm grows business by tailoring solutions...

On 6th March, 2015 new provisions for rest and meal breaks were introduced into legislation. These provisions are intended to provide greater flexibility t...

There are four public holidays over this Christmas/New Year period – Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year’s Day and the second of January.  These are fallin...

There are four public holidays over the Christmas/New Year period – Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year’s Day and the second of January. Payment for public...