The $3 billion fund is aimed at boosting growth and creating jobs in the regions.

A new eatery will be staffed by former homeless people. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Govt advice on employment law changes warns of higher costs to businesses.

Ministry to keep centralised records of workplace sexual harassment.

An automotive company has been ordered to pay $19,000 in wage arrears.

The Govt will announce the first tranche of employment law reforms at Parliament today.

Teenage Nosh worker wrongly sacked.

Industry is thriving as locals return to the region. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Willie Jackson was not the only minister who learned a hard lesson today.

An orchard worker sacked by text message for taking Labour Day off.

Which top chief executive earned the most last year?

Surge in number of workers found with opiates in their system in the Bay of Plenty.

Locals have designed an app to track kiwifruit workers' time on each orchard digitally.

A worker's face was caught on a meat spreader hook and dragged into a metal block.

More than half of the Bay's kiwifruit labour hire contractors failed an employment audit.

The company was ordered to pay $226,000 in fines and unpaid wages, but only paid $28,000.

Fears that Labour Party plans to cut immigration by up to 30,000 a year could hit economy.

The Bay is facing a skills shortage as more jobs come to fruition, a new report shows.

Employment in Tauranga is projected to grow by almost 50 per cent by 2048, according to a draft report presented to Smart Group.

The Opportunities Party wants all Kiwis to get a basic income of $200 a week.

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The Bay of Plenty's untapped supply of skilled workers could be unleashed if employers embraced flexible working arrangements, a Tauranga

Te Whanau-a-Apanui land trustees have set up a forest road engineering company on the East Cape, employing twenty locals, including ex-pats. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

An injunction has been sought from the Employment Court in a bid to prevent another 48-hour strike by resident doctors.

A decision by the Employment Court that Affco NZ unlawfully locked out seasonal meatworkers has been upheld by the Court of Appeal. The

Drug testing comes in - student enrolments drop.

A retired couple who worked at a caravan park in exchange for a free site were volunteers - not employees says the ERA.

The accident involved a meat hook at the Affco NZ plant in Rangiuru, the same meatworks which was fined $30,000 this week after a hook penetrated a worker's head.

Meat processor Affco has been ordered to pay $55,000 over an incident that left a worker hanging on a meat hook for an hour.