
Your Business: Workplace diversity - Murray Long, Murray Long Builders
Murray Long Builders is a residential building company. Murray Long talks to Caitlin Sykes about diversity in the workplace.
Murray Long Builders is a residential building company. Murray Long talks to Caitlin Sykes about diversity in the workplace.
It bucketed down on Sunday morning, just as they were setting up for the Auckland International Cultural Festival at the sprawling War Memorial Park in Mt Roskill.
Tiffany Zyp is operations manager at Blastacars Drift Karts, which was highly commended in the Divers-ability category of the EEO Trust’s 2014 Diversity Awards NZ.
Embracing diversity in the workplace isn't a 'nice to have' these days - it's a necessity.
Challenges faced by Muslim workers in New Zealand and the reluctance of employers to hire them are among the issues that will be up for discussion at a summit.
Heather du Plessis-Allan wonders: At what abstract point do we decide an immigrant has earned the right to call him or herself a New Zealander?
How do we use thinking big while starting small to the social and cultural mission of positive race relations?
On Race Relations Day, commissioner Dame Susan Devoy talks to Phil Taylor about the challenges of the job and the crossroads we have reached .
Part of John Key's success is he is seen as a Clarksonian figure - someone who speaks our language, the voice of bluff, non-PC common sense, writes Paul Thomas.
A vibrant 'GAYTM' on Ponsonby Road has been struck by vandals overnight, with the ANZ machine covered in white paint.
How to bring a legend to life? That was the challenge for film-maker Ava DuVernay when she was given the opportunity to direct - what is remarkably - the first major motion picture about Martin Luther King.
Employers are changing the way they run Xmas parties to cater for more diverse workplaces, including an increase in Muslims who don't eat ham or drink alcohol.
As a Melburnian born in NZ, I cannot leave readers misinformed after Dita de Boni's article "The yawning rich-poor Oz divide" (Nov 13).
Certainly New Zealand offers a lot less than Australia in many ways, but at least we can still have the conversation about inequality, writes Dita De Boni.
Fewer women than men choose to go into tech-intensive fields and if they do, are significantly more likely to leave the tech industry.
Only one female executive made it to the top-earner list of Japan's Nikkei 225 companies last year.
The idea that people can be classified into types has a long history. Writing 23 centuries ago, the Greek philosopher Theophrastus sketched 30 characters that are instantly recognisable to this day.
The world's most valuable firm is the latest to report diversity numbers amid a debate about whether women and minorities are underrepresented at tech firms.
In a land where Smith, Jones and Wilson once ruled the nursery, Wang, Li and Chen are now the most common surnames for babies born in our most diverse city.
EBay says women make up 42pc of its staff - a more diverse workforce than many other Silicon Valley technology companies.
Eric Watson writes: Are there potentially a large number of Kiwis who feel aggrieved because our "most important" public holidays are Christian holy days?
BNZ's head of migrant banking, Frank Cui, reckons he has a pretty good grasp of the challenges immigrants face when building a new life in NZ.
NZ's thriving economy has created a "unique chance" for NZ businesses to capture key international talent, says a recruitment expert.
The European Court of Human Rights has upheld France's ban on wearing a burqa or a niqab in public.
Women are becoming increasingly prominent in tech company white hat roles, reflecting the rising profiles of women throughout the security-technology industry.
Economist Lee Badgett says equal treatment for gays and lesbians can benefit economies from Virginia to India.
Political parties will be invited to begin their pitch for the Indian vote today at a forum in Ellerslie.