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Stealth firing or ethical dismissal? Why employers terminate staff for minor offences
Financial Times: Amazon, Meta among those taking contentious hard line on conduct.
Boeing expects post-strike output recovery to take several weeks
Restarting the Boeing manufacturing line is a complicated process.
Striking Boeing machinists consider deal that includes 35% pay hike
Hundreds of striking workers have forced the company back to negotiations.
More Kiwis take out Australian passports in record 'brain drain'
New Zealand is currently experiencing record levels of outward migration.
Sasha Borissenko: Workers' rights are being eroded
OPINION: Redundancies and return-to-office orders are on the rise.
Hundreds of jobs to go as Timaru meatworks closure confirmed
Alliance has closed its Smithfield plant, and Australian recruiters are already in town.
KiwiRail offers voluntary redundancy to all staff
Employees have two weeks to apply from Monday.
Watch: Winston Peters accosted by protesters, two arrested after pushing Shane Jones
Winston Peters described the protesters as "woke and feral".
Experts call for fewer work hours to boost productivity in NZ
Who are the 300 people who say they work all the time?
Air NZ worker on holiday sacked after using security card, bypassing Customs area
The woman argued it was a 'one-off mistake' and she should not have been fired.
Council CEO resigns amid claims of a toxic environment; ERA finds both sides at fault
Far North Council CEO Blair King said he felt 'isolated' and lodged a PG in 2022.
Willis and Luxon’s 'work from work' edict misses the point, four-day week pioneer says
And a real estate boss says some offices are straining on the three days staff do come in.
Fall in youth workforce participation no need for alarm, economist says
The job outlook for young people and some regions was dismal over the year.
US port union boss Harold Daggett disrupting global trade
Financial Times: The powerful longshoremen president has closed some US docks.
Majority of business leaders support Nicola Willis’ public sector spending cuts
National leaders promise a Budget surplus by 2027-2028 through spending cuts.
Explained: The 'excessive red tape' behind Timaru meatworks closure
About 600 people could lose their jobs.
America’s largest supermarket merger hangs on the fate of its workers
Financial Times: Union’s opposition to $39 billion buyout sparks doubts.
Opinion: Why Luxon’s office return order overlooks hybrid benefits
COMMENT: Work from home arrangements have grown a lot since the pandemic forced our hand.
Claire Trevett: Willis and Seymour tackle the evils of staying at home
Climate strikes and teacher-only days are no excuses for missing school, Seymour says.
‘A shock’: PM on potential freezing works demise costing hundreds of jobs
The Prime Minister on latest blow for small-town New Zealand.
'Gut-wrenching, heartbreaking': 600 Timaru workers face losing their jobs
Alliance Group plans to shut its South Canterbury freezing works by the end of this year.
All-hands Alliance Timaru meeting 'not going to be about beautifying site': Meatworkers Union
Meat co-operative CEO won't comment.
'Waiting and in pain': Auckland man describes seven-hour ordeal in Middlemore A&E
He was met with a 15m-long queue upon arrival at the hospital.
Kāinga Ora set to cut about 330 jobs amid agency overhaul
Kāinga Ora is to cut 330 jobs in a second round of restructuring amid ongoing reviews.
Opinion: How great CEOs can survive recession and beat adversity
OPINION: Downturns are Darwinian, so how can can great leaders get through them?
Contractor or not? Government unveils new test for gig workers, contractors
Brooke Van Velden unveils solution for the line between a worker and a contractor.
Construction sector suspected suicides: 80 died last year, highest on record
Data from Coronial Services dating back to 2007 shows record 2023 suicide numbers.