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Trade Depot job listing sparks outrage due to language requirement

RCR Bites -

Home improvement chain Trade Depot has been forced to apologise after a job listing it posted for a warehouse role in Hamilton, stated that...

Wrong hiring decisions cost Kiwi SMEs millions each year

DTNZ Business -

New research from SEEK indicates that poor recruitment choices are placing a significant financial burden on small and medium-sized businesses, with the annual cost...

Preventable death triggers call for action on industrial machine safety

Daily Telegraph NZ -

WorkSafe New Zealand is renewing its call for businesses to act on machine safety, as a court case concludes over the preventable death of...

BYOD & NZ workplaces: concerns, illegal practices and what we can do

Ursula Edgington -

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) has evolved substantially with the use of AI over the last decade. And it's not just in education sectors -...

New pay deal for nurses and midwives ratified

Daily Telegraph NZ -

Frontline health workers employed by Health New Zealand will receive pay rises and additional allowances after members of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation voted...

AI deletes routine white collar jobs

Peter St Onge -

A new study predicts that 86% of AI unemployment will be women. And not just any women: rich Democrat women. Tragically, AI is coming for...

UK youth unemployment nears one million

Daily Telegraph NZ -

Youth unemployment in the United Kingdom climbed to just under one million by the end of 2025, with new Office for National Statistics (ONS)...

National and Labour bypass ballot to fast-track modern slavery law

Daily Telegraph NZ -

National and Labour have joined forces to fast-track modern slavery legislation into Parliament using a new bipartisan process that bypasses the traditional members’ bill...

India deal sparks job-for-cash claims

Daily Telegraph NZ -

Serious allegations of migrant exploitation and job-for-cash schemes have emerged amid growing political and soclal backlash against New Zealand’s proposed free trade agreement (FTA)...

Discrimination claim fails after job interview halted over past relationship

Daily Telegraph NZ -

A man who alleged he was discriminated against during a job application after discovering he had briefly dated one of the interviewers has had...

Minimum wage to rise 2% from April 2026

Daily Telegraph NZ -

Minimum wage workers will receive a 2 percent pay rise from 1 April, lifting the adult minimum wage from $23.50 to $23.95 an hour,...

Pike River families slam ‘waste of time’ meeting with van Velden

Daily Telegraph NZ -

Pike River advocates Anna Osborne and Sonya Rockhouse say their meeting with Workplace Safety Minister Brooke van Velden on the disaster’s 15th anniversary left...

Delivery death underscores power line hazards – WorkSafe

Daily Telegraph NZ -

Businesses and workers must steer clear of power lines and plan work carefully, WorkSafe New Zealand says, following sentencing for a timber delivery that...

Unemployment hits 5.3% as job market weakens and wage growth slows

Daily Telegraph NZ -

New Zealand’s unemployment rate rose to 5.3% in the September quarter — its highest level in nearly nine years — as businesses froze hiring...

New sanctions added to benefit Traffic Light System

Daily Telegraph NZ -

From Monday, job seekers on benefits who fail to meet their obligations will face two new non-financial sanctions as part of the Government’s expanded...

Government tightens Jobseeker rules for 18–19-Year-olds

Daily Telegraph NZ -

Thousands of young New Zealanders will be affected by two new government measures aimed at reducing long-term benefit dependency, Social Development and Employment Minister...

119 jobs lost as Tokoroa plywood plant to close

Daily Telegraph NZ -

Carter Holt Harvey has confirmed its Tokoroa plywood plant will close in November, resulting in 119 job losses. The announcement was made to workers this...

Government to scrap Holidays Act and introduce new employment leave law

Daily Telegraph NZ -

The Government will repeal and replace the Holidays Act 2003 with a new Employment Leave Act, aimed at simplifying leave entitlements and giving both...

Record number of non-British nationals claiming unemployment benefit in U.K.

Daily Telegraph NZ -

The number of non-UK nationals out of work in Britain has reached record levels, with nearly 1.3 million foreign nationals claiming Universal Credit, according...

Union warns of ‘labour market crisis’

Daily Telegraph NZ -

Unemployment in New Zealand has climbed to 5.2%, with 158,000 people now out of work, according to new data released by Stats New Zealand. The...

Unemployment rises to 5.2%

Daily Telegraph NZ -

New Zealand’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 5.2 percent in the June 2025 quarter, according to figures released by Stats NZ today. This compares with...

50 police staff improperly accessed file on officer Lyn Fleming’s death

Daily Telegraph NZ -

An internal investigation has revealed that 50 New Zealand police employees, including civilian staff, accessed sensitive files related to the death of Senior Sergeant...

California Dreaming

Guy Hatchard -

The NY Times is heralding a new company called Mechanize formed in San Francisco to produce software with the ‘audacious’ (???) goal of replacing 50% of white collar...

Changes to improve pay equity process – van Velden

Daily Telegraph NZ -

The Government is amending the Equal Pay Act to make the process of raising and resolving pay equity claims more robust, workable and sustainable,...

NZDF lowers entry standards to boost recruitment numbers

Daily Telegraph NZ -

The New Zealand Defence Force has lowered some of its academic entry requirements in an effort to widen its recruitment pool and address declining...

Job market shows signs of recovery but ‘trend unclear’

Daily Telegraph NZ -

New Zealand's job market is showing early signs of recovery, with job ads rising 4 percent in January, marking the strongest growth in five...

Twelve months to re-negotiate employment contracts before income threshold policy takes effect

Daily Telegraph NZ -

Workplace Relations and Safety Minister Brooke van Velden says an income threshold for unjustified dismissal claims will apply to existing employment agreements after one...

Australians allowed to dodge bosses’ phone calls

Daily Telegraph NZ -

The new regulation is part of a broader reform of labor laws aimed at improving people’s work-life balance. Most Australian workers have been granted a...

More job cuts on the cards at Health NZ

Daily Telegraph NZ -

Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora is proposing to cut 44 roles, many of which were recently established, according to the Public Service Association...

Young Aussie reveals how to negotiate a four-day work week

Daily Telegraph NZ -

Demi Kotsoris, a 29-year-old marketing professional from Melbourne, has successfully negotiated a four-day work week since she was 23. After experiencing the inefficiencies of a...

Job seekers to report on progress after six months from today

Daily Telegraph NZ -

A new requirement for people on Jobseeker Support benefits to meet with MSD after six months to assess how their job search is going...

Job hunting public servants struggle amid cuts and stagnant economy

Daily Telegraph NZ -

Thousands of public servants in New Zealand are facing a bleak job market as over 6,000 public sector positions are being cut amid government...

Tougher sanctions aim to reduce welfare dependency

Daily Telegraph NZ -

Social Development Minister Louise Upston has announced an increase in benefit sanctions starting June, focusing particularly on young jobseekers. The Ministry of Social Development (MSD)...

Trucker who refused COVID jab gets big payout for unjustified dismissal

Daily Telegraph NZ -

Wayne Basher, a truck driver who was terminated from Big Chill Distribution Ltd for not getting vaccinated against Covid-19, has been awarded nearly $29,000...

Psychiatric nurse dismissed following racial insult in workplace group chat

Daily Telegraph NZ -

Vinod Chand, a psychiatric nurse at Te Whatu Ora’s Mason Clinic in Pt Chevalier since 2008, was dismissed for referring to a colleague as...

Government to ‘focus on getting people into work’

Daily Telegraph NZ -

The coalition government will refocus employment efforts and the welfare system so that supporting people who can work into jobs is the number one...

Exploited migrant employee ‘felt like a prisoner’

Daily Telegraph NZ -

A young migrant worker says she felt like a "prisoner" and regretted coming to New Zealand after being seriously exploited by her Central Otago...

New requirements for employers under the Worker Protection Act

Daily Telegraph NZ -

The Worker Protection (Migrant and other Employees) Act 2023 comes into force on 6 January 2024. It strengthens immigration and employment laws to assist...

Availability of 90-day trials extended

Daily Telegraph NZ -

The Government has delivered on its commitment to extend the availability of 90-day trials to all businesses, passing the Employment Relations (Trial Periods) Amendment...

Restaurant owners who exploited migrant workers must pay over $420,000

Daily Telegraph NZ -

The former owners of 2 North Island restaurants who exploited migrant workers and breached numerous minimum employment standards must pay more than $330,000 in...

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