EMA honours Alexander Topp with 2025 Patrick Seaman Award for Excellence in Health and Safety
The latest State of a Thriving Nation 2025 report delivered a sobering reminder that health and safety failures come at a massive cost.
Employment
Rise in unemployment underscores fragile recovery
The latest State of a Thriving Nation 2025 report delivered a sobering reminder that health and safety failures come at a massive cost.
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Culture killers: Identifying the hidden behaviours that can sabotage your workplace
Culture. It’s a word tossed around in boardrooms and team huddles, but ask 10 people what it means, and you’ll get 10 different answers.
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Dealing with the long-term legal and human impacts of Covid
I recently presented to the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Covid-19, outlining the impacts on the business sector of the extended lockdowns and vaccine mandates.
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How to optimise workforce planning in today’s labour market
Even in a labour market that has more people available for work, immigration still plays an important piece in the puzzle around how employers find the right skills for their businesses.
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Long Covid’s legacy of frustration and uncertainty
The Covid-19 lockdowns of 2020/21 may be fading into memory, but for long-Covid sufferers, the difficulties of that unusual period in our recent history carry on to today.
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Easter Sunday is not a public holiday – give retailers the freedom to open
The EMA says the current law regulating Easter Sunday trading hours causes confusion for retailers throughout the country.
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Retirement – is it for all of us, or only some of us?
Retirement is a construct that is only about 100 years old. It was introduced to help older and aged workers live with some dignity, given their long and hard-working lives.
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How to avoid costly mistakes in restructuring staff
There’s a right way and a wrong way to restructure a business.
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Vigilance still needed on workplace drug impairment
The number of workers impaired by drug use in New Zealand is relatively low, but employers cannot afford to become complacent.
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