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The New Zealand Herald is reporting that an Air New Zealand flight to Australia was grounded on Thursday after cabin crew members were suspended for donning wigs. Wearing wigs to work was a creative form of industrial action in the ongoing pay dispute...
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Prime Minister John Key has told the new politics TV programme Q+A that he only knows of two businesses so far that may take part in the Government’s nine-day fortnight scheme when its launched on Friday. The scheme allows businesses and their...
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Following the revelations that United States ‘tough on crime’ lobby groups are being funded by the private prison industry, and the resulting speculation that the same thing could be occurring in New Zealand, further questions are being...
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As New Zealand gets closer to contracting prison management to private corporations there is speculation rising about possible future (or even present) links between the private prison industry and “tough on crime” lobby groups. The Standard has...
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New Zealand Foreign Minister Murray McCully has ordered two reviews into NZAid, the outcome of which is expected to be its re-integration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. This has led to concern that New Zealand’s...
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Yesterday in a coordinated effort a message was faxed, emailed and snail-mailed to New Zealand’s Minister of State Services, Tony Ryall, who recently canceled two inquires into pay inequality in state sector jobs. The inquiries were aimed at...
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Christchurch’s Central City Business Association manager Paul Lonsdale has told The Press that he is exploring plans to install speakers in Stewart Plaza, a part of the central business district, to play “nice, easy listening” music...
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Sealord, a New Zealand company that the Herald describes as “a global seafood enterprise” announced yesterday restructuring plans aimed at “improving its financial performance amid the recession” and positioning the company for “further...
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One of the most interesting projects to come out of last Fridays “job summit” a conference organised to discuss protecting and creating jobs during the recession, is the idea of building a cycle way covering the length of New Zealand, to attract...
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New Zealand’s government has stalled a controversial change to copyright law that would have seen Internet Service Providers removing Internet access from anyone accused (not convicted) of violating intellectual property laws though...
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