Employment

More concerns were aired in Parliament's transport and industrial relations committee today over employer-employee power imbalances likely to result from proposed employment law changes.

The recession has been blamed for slowing a national taxi chain's southern expansion when a recruitment drive did not get enough people to fill just two or three vacancies.

Dunedin students will be lining up for a chance of landing a sexy summer job this week.

The possibility of Dunedin's Hillside Engineering workshops winning some construction work on the $500 million tender for Auckland's trains appears to have increased with the release of KiwiRail's

Job vacancies online increased by 7.6 percent over the last three months and there are 39.6 percent more now than there were in July last year, Employment Minister Paula Bennett says.

A Palmerston woman is to get her job back, about three years of lost wages and $4000 in compensation after the Employment Court found she was unjustifiably dismissed from Oceana Gold Ltd.

A revised restructuring proposal for the University of Otago College of Education will still see significant job cuts among teacher educators, the Tertiary Education Union says.

The Council of Trade Unions says there is room for cautious optimism for wage levels although many people are still not receiving increases.