Wage increases accelerated in the last quarter, but is still soft enough to keep the Reserve Bank from hiking interest rates anytime soon. The labour cost index rose 0.6 percent in the last...

The teenage part-time workforce fell from 51,200 in 2007 to 35,500 this year.

NZ's total of building trades workers needs to double to 155,400 over the next five years, say training groups.

John Key would win a lot of Brownie points if he simply announced a high-powered Prime Minister's taskforce on youth employment.