In 2009 we purchased HR2GO, a business focusing on providing outsourced HR services through the use of specialist contractors.  From 1 December 2011 we are re-launching our client service offerings under two brands. Teesdale Loof retains its core services with HR2GO providing the specialist contractors, HR tools, learning and development programs and ‘Virtual HR department’ [...]

 The new Government campaigned on some significant changes for employment relations. Collective Bargaining The requirement to conclude a collective agreement would be removed. There would still be an obligation to bargain in good faith but for the many employers with low numbers of union members they would at last have the power to end time [...]

Changing times call for adaptation and the courage to change. Some years ago a Fortune Magazine study concluded that the #1 reason Fortune 500 CEO’s were fired was not a lack of good strategy but failure to execute change successfully. Collectively our team has been involved in over 100 change projects in recent years and [...]

Building on the popularity of the “Birth of a SuperCity” presentation we made to clients earlier in the year we are now offering a Change Management MasterClass workshop entitled “Changing the Way we Change“. Course Description:

How good is your HR intranet? Where do your frontline managers go for people management support resources such as policies, processes, tools, conversation guides and reference materials? Where can they get ‘self-help’ with policies, reference materials, checklists, guides, conversation plans and so on for handling all kinds of people problems? HR2GO can provide the content, [...]

Often the most complex challenges in business can be made simple. The challenge line managers’ face in getting results through people is one such example. Strip away the peripherals and successful leadership is about your ability as a line manager to have effective, often courageous, conversations with your people about important everyday matters that affect [...]

In Vice-Chancellor of Massey University v Wrigley the Court examined a restructuring process conducted by the employer. This was an appeal by the employer against an earlier decision of the Authority. In the course of the consultation process affected employees sought information relating to themselves which the employer refused to provide. The Court decided the [...]

In the good old days, unauthorised possession of another person’s property was grounds for dismissal, regardless of the value of the property concerned. In a landmark case in 1981, Hepi v Fletcher Construction, Mr Hepi was found to have been justifiably dismissed for taking an offcut of No8 wire worth around 9 cents. In a [...]