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Supporting Businesses That Care

Supporting Businesses That Care

Gary Moller garymoller.com Several weeks ago, Alofa and I attended a private meeting of small and medium business owners to discuss surviving the new Traffic Light system. We expected a dozen attendees. But, instead, the hall was standing room only with at least 200 hundred in attendance. There were

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Robots Are Coming for the Lawyers – Which May Be Bad for Tomorrow’s Attorneys but Great for Anyone in Need of Cheap Legal Assistance

Elizabeth C. Tippett University of Oregon Charlotte Alexander Georgia State University Professor Tippett writes about ethics, employment law, and the intersection of law and technology. Charlotte S. Alexander holds the Connie D. and Ken McDaniel WomenLead Chair as an Associate Professor of Law and Analytics at the Colleges of Business

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Shortages Will Continue, but for Some Sellers the Problem Will Be Too Much Stock

Sarah Schiffling Liverpool John Moores University Nikolaos Valantasis Kanellos Technological University Dublin Sarah Schiffling is a Senior Lecturer in Supply Chain Management at Liverpool John Moores University, UK, and an International Research Fellow with the HUMLOG Institute in Helsinki, Finland. Nikolaos Valantasis Kanellos is a Lecturer in Logistics, and Program

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The Problem with COVID Incentives

Matt Judd You may wonder like me, how a country with as many resources, with enormous wealth, and with supposedly, the World’s best hospitals and most highly trained Doctors and medical staff could fare so badly in the fight against Covid-19 as did the United States. https://www.statista.

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Faces of the Day

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Time For ‘No Jab No Job’ Policy To Go

Time For ‘No Jab No Job’ Policy To Go

Family First The Don’t Divide Us.nz campaign, which presented a petition to Parliament last month with 87,269 signatures, is calling on the Government to ditch the divisive ‘no jab no job’ policy and allow for the use of COVID rapid antigen testing as an alternative for unvaccinated

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The Great Resignation

The Great Resignation

It started with bus drivers. We couldn’t get bus drivers for love or money. Most people saw bus driving as an undesirable job; poor pay, split shifts and unsociable hours. People don’t want to be bus drivers, but they do want buses. Therein lies the problem. Then along

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Shocking 40% Increase in Deaths

Shocking 40% Increase in Deaths

Margaret Menge thecentersquare.com The head of Indianapolis-based insurance company OneAmerica said the death rate is up a stunning 40% from pre-pandemic levels among working-age people. “We are seeing, right now, the highest death rates we have seen in the history of this business – not just at OneAmerica,” the company’

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Things That Make Me Go Hmm

For all the people complaining about mandates here are a few thoughts: 1) ACTs position is that people should be able to choose what goes on their property, so we believe the Government’s policy is wrong. We laid this out in October. 2) Under ACTs policy, most businesses would

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Discrimination of the Day

Discrimination of the Day

Today’s example from New Zealand is a discriminatory and racist job advertisement. Let’s highlight the racism and discrimination inside New Zealand together because it is NOT OK! There is NOTHING positive about discrimination. If you enjoyed this article please share it using the share buttons at the top

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

Steve Oliver from Oliver MMA HQ updates us on the fine they received from Police and what their next steps are – this was filmed the day before Christmas and incredibly in just 1 day they raised the money they needed to take their fight to court. I am a big

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Letter to the Editor: Clause 9

Letter to the Editor: Clause 9

Dear Editor Hi there I just read the article about the Oliver MMA business.  I have sent the business the below link, which is an interview with Auckland lawyer Liz Lambert discussing how Work Safe have no authority to impose fines, and that the mandate regulations have Clause 9 that

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Ugh, I Now Drive an Electric Vehicle

Nobody Interesting As someone who has clocked up over 300,000 km in diesel 4×4 utes, it pains me to note that I now drive an electric vehicle. There was only limited choice in this transition, as the EV-as-company-policy came with the new job. A ute was simply not

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