In October last year Ben Bell was elected to be Mayor of Gore District Council by 8 votes. He is New Zealand’s youngest mayor ever. In this rural and largely...
Rimutaka Prison is in the news again with it being reported that nine prison staff still remain on paid special leave a year after investigations were commenced for...
Kellie-Jay Keen (also known as Posie Parker) was pelted with tomato sauce in Auckland and left the country. Just weeks later she has appeared in Belfast in Northern...
Business leaders, HR professionals and recruitment consultants are going to have to get their heads around ChatGPT and other Artificial Intelligence (AI) equivalents...
Businesses do not tend to thrive through financial downturns, or even worse, recessions. Hard decisions need to be made; efficiencies need to be found, changes or...
Public servants have been waiting some time to see some movement in the so-called “pay restraint” imposed on Government agencies following the Covid-19 epidemic. It has...
The Public Services Commissioner has written to the Chairs and Chief Executives of the public service reminding them of their obligations to be impartial and that they...
While six former ex-Gloriavale women are engaged in a lengthy litigation case in the Employment Court arguing that they were employees and not volunteers a group of...
Oranga Tamariki does not receive much positive media coverage. The latest report from the Independent Children's Monitor, Aroturuki Tamariki, says that Oranga Tamariki...
Recently in France, more than one million people joined a day of protests and strikes against plans to push back the age of retirement from 62 to 64. President Macron...
HR professionals are used to assisting managers to raise issues with employees. The conventional approach is to follow a number of steps set out in the Employment...
The old adage that “justice moves slowly” is particularly true at present in New Zealand. Court staff have been taking a form of industrial action by working to rule...
