Central Otago Mayor Malcolm Macpherson is welcoming the prospect of a potential lignite mine near St Bathans and says if it proceeds, it will have "enormous" economic benefits for the country and the region.
Former Lauder Hotel owners Robyn Cousins and Karen Harris have been successful in a claim heard by the Employment Relations Authority for arrears of wages and holiday pay for work they did at the Otematata Hotel.
An ACT Party attempt to reintroduce the youth minimum wage rate was heavily defeated in Parliament tonight.
Telecom said it is targeting a reduction of 200 management positions this year.
An Auckland teacher who claims he was fired after raising concerns about a raft of incidents at his school has won a claim for unjustified dismissal.
The closure of Fisher and Paykel Appliances' Mosgiel plant and loss of 430 jobs in early 2008 prompted a reduction in Dunedin's gross domestic product for 2009, and the city remains dogged by low population growth.
Job growth is unlikely to have returned in the March quarter, a new survey suggests.
The Government has increased the number of positions for what it calls front-line staff, but figures released today show it is having difficulties filling them.
The National Party has ruled out supporting a bill introduced to Parliament by ACT MP Sir Roger Douglas seeking to allow for the reintroduction of youth rates.
A restaurant worker sacked after being discriminated against because of his sexual orientation has been awarded has been awarded nearly $15,000.
Senior management recruitment for the Bunnings Warehouse in Dunedin has begun.
Employers should get out and promote themselves to staff who are thinking of leaving for greener pastures, and remind them that they had been retained through one of the harshest downturns in history, an employment specialist says.
Oamaru will be part of a simultaneous nationwide protest tomorrow over the 25c an hour increase in the minimum wage.
If nothing else, the steep and unexpected rise in unemployment figures to 7.3% - comprising in large part the young - should give us an indication that all is not well out there in the jobs market.
The Employment Relations Authority has ordered a Dunedin restaurant to pay compensation to a former employee for distress and lost remuneration after it found she was unjustifiably dismissed.
The New Zealand dollar fell around one US cent after a shock rise in the unemployment rate to 7.3 percent in the December quarter.
Unemployment in Queenstown soared in the last six months of 2009 to levels not seen since 2003, but has been dropping steadily in the past couple of weeks.
The Forsyth Barr Stadium loomed large in Dunedin's building activity figures last year, with the project pushing up the value of building consents for the year by $116 million.
Employees were feeling a little happier about employment conditions at the end of last year, according to the Westpac McDermott Miller Employment confidence survey released yesterday.
All Anterea Matana and his wife Mina want for Christmas this year are jobs.
