Employment

The unemployment rate fell to 6.4 percent in the September quarter from 6.9 percent in the previous three months, as the number of people employed rose 23,000 or 1 percent to 2.19 million.

Evidence suggests the New Zealand labour market continued its trend of slow improvement in the three months ended September, but economists are warning that volatility may cause a surprise.

In July 2009, the Employment Court made a decision on pay rates that was estimated would cost the residential care sector between $400 million and $500 million in back pay and between an extra $60

The deinstitutionalisation of care for the intellectually disabled in this country - moved during the 1980s and beyond from large "homes" where they were cared for by staff employed under public se