More concerns were aired in Parliament's transport and industrial relations committee today over employer-employee power imbalances likely to result from proposed employment law changes.
The recession has been blamed for slowing a national taxi chain's southern expansion when a recruitment drive did not get enough people to fill just two or three vacancies.
Dunedin students will be lining up for a chance of landing a sexy summer job this week.
New Zealand Defence Force personnel and the Otago Southland Regional Employer Support Council met in Dunedin yesterday to discuss getting young people who succeed in defence force youth programmes into meaningful employment.
The possibility of Dunedin's Hillside Engineering workshops winning some construction work on the $500 million tender for Auckland's trains appears to have increased with the release of KiwiRail's Request for Proposal (RFP) documentation.
The Government's decision to extend 90-day new-employee trials to all businesses was a suggestion of Act New Zealand and against the recommendation of its own Labour Minister Kate Wilkinson.
Job vacancies online increased by 7.6 percent over the last three months and there are 39.6 percent more now than there were in July last year, Employment Minister Paula Bennett says.
A Palmerston woman is to get her job back, about three years of lost wages and $4000 in compensation after the Employment Court found she was unjustifiably dismissed from Oceana Gold Ltd.
The Council of Trade Unions says there is room for cautious optimism for wage levels although many people are still not receiving increases.
A revised restructuring proposal for the University of Otago College of Education will still see significant job cuts among teacher educators, the Tertiary Education Union says.
Outrage is brewing among unions and workers' rights advocates over Government plans to extend the 90-day workers' trial period to all companies and give employers the power to keep unions out of the workplace.
Otago employees are the least optimistic in the country, according to the Westpac McDermott Miller index released yesterday.
Many of the 135 meat workers who would lose their jobs with the expected closure of Silver Fern Farms Canterbury lamb cutting plant in Christchurch, worked only six weeks this season.
Katrina Bell still remembers the doctor at Waikato Hospital who effectively turned her away when her life collapsed.
A South Auckland service station worker who violated safety procedures leading to him being attacked, then said he could not take part in a disciplinary process because his glasses were broken in the attack, was justifiably dismissed, the Employment Relations Authority (ERA) says.
Milton is about to become home to what might well be one of New Zealand's highest-producing sawmills, as part of a multimillion-dollar expansion of Southern Cross Forest Products Ltd.
The number of jobs advertised online increased by 8.6 percent in the past three months, Employment Minister Paula Bennett says.
The figures, collected by the Department of Labour, showed the number of skilled jobs advertised increased 8.5 percent in the past three months.
Dressing like a fuddy duddy and having dyed hair showing regrowth are on the list of things not to do if you are an older job seeker, career practitioner Anne Potter says.
Gone are the days of employees shuffling out the door and retiring at 65 as more and more people seize work opportunities well in to their 70s.
The Department of Labour says a new Leading Indicator of Employment it has launched confirms an upturn in the labour market.
