Employment

The reality of getting a job post-conviction

Programme aims to give ex-prisoners a second chance at life.

How to get a job when you've never had one

“It’s about looking outside the box … on what you can do rather than what you haven’t done.”

Why you might feel like an imposter at work

Feel like you're faking it? So do half of New Zealanders, research shows.

How the proposed sick leave changes could impact you

The Government is proposing changes to the Holidays Act.

Young workers are more burnt out than any other age group, but why?

“It’s been two years and I still haven’t recovered.”

‘We're trying to make CVs irrelevant’: Rangatahi create new job app

It’s an age-old dilemma. You want a job but don’t have enough experience but you need a job to gain experience. 

It’s a problem that a group…

How the Kellogg’s strike affects our Corn Flakes in NZ

From Corn Flakes, Nutri-Grain and Coco Pops, local supermarkets are filled with Kellogg’s products.

For the rest of the year Pasifika women work for free because of the pay gap

For every $1 an hour a Pākehā man makes, a Pasifika woman will earn 72 cents.

New report reveals which clothing brands are unsustainable

Where do your clothes come from, and how are they made?

Women are paid $60,000 less than men working as chartered accountants, a new survey finds

The survey of more than 4500 chartered accountants in New Zealand and Australia shows women are paid up to 40 to 50 percent less than their…

Young workers in NZ are three times more burnt out than others

New Zealand workers under the age of 30 are three times more likely to be burnt out than other demographics.

Do you feel like you’ve got nothing…

Māori scientists feel pressured to educate colleagues for free

New research highlights how Māori scientists are expected to raise the cultural capacity of their organisations without dedicated time or pay. 

The research, published this month in…

New Zealanders seem to hate beneficiaries. Is there hope that Covid will change that?

Covid has meant nearly 40,000 people have accessed the jobseeker benefit, nearly half of them for the first time. One million New Zealanders have been given…

Job losses hit Weta game division after layoffs from AR company Magic Leap

Update: Weta Workshop has confirmed all of the layoffs on Monday 4 May were Magic Leap employees - which they say is less than half of…