An Auckland and Cromwell food business and its owner have been ordered to pay penalties after exploiting workers.
Crime and Justice
11:47am
Twenty-two security guards would go under a proposed cut, which would be the second this year.
Tue, Sep 1
2:29
The death is the first at a major New Zealand commercial port since 2022, with Maritime NZ investigating.
New Zealand
Just 14% of graduate students said they felt very confident about securing a job after study.
Business
2:20
Labour leader Chris Hipkins said currently New Zealand-trained nurses looking for work had no option but to seek employment overseas.
Health
Mon, Aug 31
Labour's Māori development spokesperson Willie Jackson said he expected up to 3000 Māori would benefit from the plan.
Te Ao Māori
Sat, Aug 29
Employment Court decisions in 2022 and 2023 found several former residents were employees, with the inspectorate seeking compensation and penalties on their behalf.
Thu, Aug 27
The Wairarapa firm was ordered to pay about $96,000 in reparation after a worker suffered life-changing injuries when his clothing became caught in an unguarded PTO shaft.
Sixty-one ex-residents allege they were subjected to forced child labour, forced labour and servitude while living in the West Coast religious community.
Wed, Aug 26
Common software programs such as Microsoft Office and Zoom have tools that can be used for tracking worker productivity, but these features aren't always activated.
World
Tue, Aug 25
Younger generations still aspire to traditional milestones, but are much less confident of achieving them.
Sun, Aug 23
The petition with the hashtag InfantinOut also calls for FIFA "to be rebuilt so that the current debacle can never happen again".
Football
Fri, Aug 21
It follows revelations that Health New Zealand has hired just 54 additional full-time equivalent nurses in the past two years.
Thu, Aug 20
Samantha Barrass – who had already announced plans to depart – went on leave last month over concerns at the country's financial markets regulator.
Johnston said she was looking forward to "recharging" and exploring some creative projects before her next step.
Wed, Aug 19
A Health NZ spokesperson said it had now changed its hiring processes and four regional recruitment panels no longer existed.
The Employment Leave Act has passed into law and will replace the Holidays Act in 2028, aiming to make leave rules clearer for employers and employees, and offer more certainty.
Mon, Aug 17
New research finds only one in five workers say their benefits are well matched to what they need, even as pay slips behind the cost of living.
"The council's executive are leaving in droves. This is the direct result of the minister's gutting of the council's board," opines a union representative.
Thu, Aug 13
Chief executive Jason Walbridge said "the economic conditions facing our business are real, and they require us to make some hard choices about how we're set up for the future".
Ads were down 0.8% from June while the number of applicants per listing rose 1.6%.
Wed, Aug 12
Once a generation feels they have no agency in their future, that’s a hard mindset to change, an author says.
Life
Sun, Aug 9
Stats NZ data shows that most New Zealanders aren't getting enough pay increases to keep up with the rate of inflation.
Thu, Aug 6
"Around 8000 more people were experiencing long-term unemployment in the June 2026 quarter than in the same quarter in 2025," according to Stats NZ.
Wed, Aug 5
MSD employed an extra 100 security guards at Work and Income centres after two Ashburton employees were killed in 2014.
