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Prospects bleak for Te Aroha workers
'They're calling it a seasonal lay-off which is bull,' a worker at Silver Fern Farm's fire-hit Te Aroha factory says.
'They're calling it a seasonal lay-off which is bull,' a worker at Silver Fern Farm's fire-hit Te Aroha factory says.
Add Christmas and the associated financial pressures into the mix, and I suspect this unfortunate trend of employee theft and fraud may continue into 2011.
Stay-at-home mums are an endangered species these days. I was one once and even then it was hard work explaining why.
Recruitment is the barometer of what is going on; if we are good then businesses are generally good.
Name suppression has been lifted for an accountant who fiddled a payroll system to give himself a $10,000 payrise.
For a young person in a competitive job market, getting your foot in the door in your chosen industry is key.
More can be done to improve the tax system to promote economic growth, says Treasury secretary John Whitehead.
A survey of NZ small businesses has shown that the 90-day trial period has prompted them to hire more staff, says KPMG.
Unions are vowing to continue the fight against an employment law change passed by Parliament last night.
Employment law changes which were fiercely fought by unions and the Labour Party have been passed by Parliament.