The South Island drove the country’s employment growth with a 4.6% increase year-on-year, and a 1.2% monthly growth, according to the report.<\/p>\n
It attributed the continued growth in job openings across the country to a surge in casual positions, which went up 18.3% year-on-year.<\/p>\n
Casual roles also increased 3.3% when compared with December, and went up 0.7% month-on-month, according to the findings.<\/p>\n
Neil Webster, Employment Hero General Manager NZ, said the current situation stems from global uncertainty felt by business owners.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“While it is positive to see employment growth holding up in the face of increasing global pressures, it is clear that employers are seeking out workers for casual and part-time positions rather than full-time work. This comes amid high levels of uncertainty and an unclear economic outlook,” Webster said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The South Island drove the country’s employment growth with a 4.6% increase year-on-year, and a 1.2% monthly growth,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[41878,1144,111,43,139,69,3454],"class_list":{"0":"post-383649","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-employment-growth","9":"tag-human-resources","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-wage-growth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}