Employment

An update on the feasibility of a $4 billion pumped hydro storage in Central Otago is expected next month.

Minister of Health Andrew Little has been explaining Budget spending to health leaders in Auckland this morning, outlining just how big the new Health NZ organisation will be.

The era of hybrid working could be upon us for good as inner city businesses invite employees back into the office.

The latest economic snapshot of Taranaki shows the province has not been left unscathed by the cost of living crisis.

Comment - Ahead of the Budget, there's an extra $230m for apprenticeships, while negotiations between care workers and the government have fallen apart, Katherine Ravenswood writes.

The general manager of Enliven Central, which runs 14 resthomes across the North Island, said they were desperate for nurses but were not getting applications through traditional advertising.

Minister of Building and Construction Poto Williams is supporting calls for mental health initiatives to be written into government construction contracts.

Striking health workers have begun picketing around the country, saying they're fed up with being under paid and under valued.

The government is spending an extra $20 million over four years on its plan to transform the digital technologies industry.

Doctors and nurses organisations are not happy with the government's mmigration and border changes, saying it won't help a system under severe strain.

Aged Care providers are joining the chorus of disapproval of a government decision to leave nurses off the new fast-tracked pathway to residency.

An organisation fighting for migrant workers' rights says a new scheme to attract overseas workers is unfair and elitist. Audio

Senior doctors could be the next health workers to walk off the job, with their union boss writing an angry letter saying pay talks are becoming impossible.