Electrician badly burned by arc flash from live switchboard
An electrician who suffered severe burns while working on a live switchboard in Auckland has led to WorkSafe…
AI is interviewing thousands of Kiwi job seekers — so I gave it a try
More than 2500 AI-led job interviews were carried out by a single company last month by a New…
‘We can’t just stay still’: Willis on public sector shake-up
Finance Minister Nicola Willis says the Government has not modelled the impact of planned public sector job cuts…
Thousands of public service jobs to go, major Govt shake-up announced
Nearly 9000 public service roles will be cut over the next three years under a sweeping Government overhaul…
Owner of Nature’s Bounty vitamins to lay off 31 employees in Holbrook
A manufacturer of vitamins and nutritional supplements plans to lay off nearly half the employees at one of…
The Kiwis moving to Australia unprepared and ending up in crisis
A community worker on Queensland’s Gold Coast says she has conversations “a couple of times every day” with…
‘We simply cannot match the pay’
New Zealand Police Commissioner Richard Chambers has conceded he cannot compete with the salaries and incentives being offered…
NZ needs to learn blunt lessons of business failure
Comment: New Zealand is closing businesses faster than it is learning from their failure. March 2026 was the…
Students cram into careers expo amid high youth unemployment
Local school leavers flocked to Porirua’s careers expo this year against a backdrop of young people struggling to…
Hard labour – under the hood of the stalled New Zealand job market (in charts)
New Zealand’s unemployment rate fell in the first quarter, but look under the hood and the jobs market…
Fed’s Musalem Says Risks Are Shifting More Toward Inflation
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President Alberto Musalem said there is much uncertainty over the future path…
Job hunters struggling to get through AI screening, algorithms
Job seekers say not being able to tell if some companies are using artificial intelligence to screen their…