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Govt accused of 'slash and burn'

The Government is being accused of taking a slash and burn approach to spending after Finance Minister Bill English signalled cuts to public services and new figures showed substantial job losses in the sector.

Quake businesses and workers given longer lifeline

Subsidies and job loss cover scheme will continue for two extra weeks.

Workers upbeat, shrug off Christchurch earthquake impact

Economic outlook grim until 2013 - NZIER

Christchurch earthquake: 220 jobs go as badly hit company closes doors

Laid off workers may not qualify for quake scheme

More than 200 workers laid off from a Christchurch textile plant may not qualify for help through the Government's earthquake assistance package.

Carpet manufacturer closes plant, axes jobs

Earthquake hit carpet manufacturer Canterbury Spinners is shutting its Christchurch operation and axing 195 jobs.

Fewer on dole but disaster gives public payroll big hit

Beneficiaries down, but quake yet to affect figures

John Armstrong: Key feeling queasy

What do you think of the Welfare Working Group's proposals?

Massive welfare overhaul proposed

Mothers with young babies and sick and disabled people on benefits would be forced to look for work under a proposed overhaul of NZ's welfare system, which would see all benefits replaced by a 'jobseeker payment'.

Key: Work-testing when child three makes sense

Prime Minister John Key says he is open to work-testing beneficiaries when their youngest child turns three.

Has the local job market dried up?

After 120 knockbacks, where are the jobs?

Peter Milne has one question for a government advisory group that wants more beneficiaries to have to look for work: Where are the jobs?

Govt rules out cutting the dole

The Government won't consider reductions to main benefit levels including the sickness, invalid's, unemployment and domestic purposes benefits as part of any welfare overhaul recommended by the Welfare Working Group tomorrow.

Bombshell on way for beneficiaries

About 300,000 welfare beneficiaries who are judged capable of work will face a day of reckoning tomorrow with the release of a report.

Tapu Misa: So many positives in the life of a soldier

Secure job, training, no student loan, chance to see the world, how could any parent object?