Julian Wood maxim.org.nz When the Government closed New Zealand’s borders in response to COVID-19, flaws in our labour market were exposed. Not only was tourism and accommodation brought to a grinding halt, a massive temporary workforce was removed from the New Zealand labour market, leaving many businesses
I am no statistician. Ask anyone who knows me. Statistics was the only paper I struggled with when studying accountancy. But when I heard yesterday that the unemployment figures for the June 2020 quarter had actually fallen to 4%, I decided that the old adage is true. There are most
Wibble In a stunning display of Woke-Karma, the popular “Coco’s Cantina” restaurant in Auckland’s Karangahape Road is now considering changing its name after complaints were made by the owners of the “Kingi” restaurant in Britomart that the name “Coco’s Cantina” was appropriating Latin culture. This comes after
An employment company has just been started in the US called unwoke.hr that is filling a much-needed gap in the market. Their refreshing byline says that they Hire thinkers. Not activists. and Hire courageous, free thinking and freedom loving individuals. Not ideologues whose only agenda is to weaponise your
Matariki. The Maori New Year. A time of renewal and celebration. Matariki is a time to gather with family and friends to reflect on the past, celebrate the present and plan for the future. It’s all due to the appearance of a certain constellation (Pleiades) in the night sky.
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On Wednesday Judith Collins launched National’s Business Start policy whereby unemployed workers could access their KiwiSaver retirement fund to start a small business. Collins said she had started three small businesses and all had been successful. This was probably during the time her opponent in the election was struggling
It seems that the National party is the only political party that is taking any notice of the fact that thousands of people are losing their jobs. By the time the election comes around, there will be many more redundancies and the government, still concentrating on the health perspectives of
BFD Political corner: Election 2020 is a series that features political speeches, political ads and political campaigns on Social media from a range of different political parties in the lead up to the New Zealand election. Today we have the NZ First Party: Save Tiwai Public Meeting in Invercargill Please
I’ve previously examined the curious phenomenon of the Woke Corporation. How is it, I wondered, that the Marxists and the Globalists have so gotten in each others’ beds. I pointed to Communications (a discipline almost completely dominated by Marxist academics) graduates infiltrating PR departments, as well as left-educated CEOs
Once again, a gutless corporation has caved to a professional whinger, and one of Australia’s most iconic brand names has been cancelled. Aboriginal activist Stephen Hagan says “common sense has prevailed” with the decision of Canadian conglomerate Saputo to dump the “Coon” cheese brand after he complained to company
Sir Stephen Tindall signed a letter to governments, asking them to tax millionaires more. His timing in signing that letter could not have been worse. Now everyone that knows about it will call him out for the hypocrite that he is, asking to be taxed more while workers in his
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National’s transport infrastructure package is just the first part of the Delivering Infrastructure theme of its Plan to Get New Zealand Working. Today initial announcements focus on the Upper North Island with announcements planned for across the rest of the country. What projects are part of National’s Upper
