Employment Relations

After injury: Teamwork makes recovery work

After injury: Teamwork makes recovery work

Most workplace injuries, with collaborative effort and temporary adjustments, don't have to result in prolonged absences. There's growing evidence and consensus that maintaining a connection to work, even in a modified capacity, significantly benefits recovery. A...

Better approach to business payments needed

Better approach to business payments needed

BusinessNZ supports the repealing of the Business Payment Practices Act. “BusinessNZ is instead working with its large business group to develop a voluntary code to ensure small businesses are paid on a timely basis,” BusinessNZ Chief Executive Kirk Hope said. Mr Hope...

Better approach to business payments needed

NZ Economy: Turning the page

The latest BusinessNZ Planning Forecast shows business confidence is increasing, but New Zealand’s economic growth is still expected to be relatively low over the forecast period out to December 2025.

Better approach to business payments needed

Contractor policy has merit

BusinessNZ agrees with a policy proposal to clarify in law the distinction between contractors and employees. Commenting on an election policy released by ACT today, BusinessNZ Advocacy Director Catherine Beard said the issue was a significant one for the business...

Better approach to business payments needed

Business views for 2023 election

Businesses are ambitious for New Zealand’s success and want a better policies to help achieve it, BusinessNZ says. BusinessNZ has ‘taken the pulse’ of the business community and published Election Priorities for a better future  - the thoughts of large and small...

Better approach to business payments needed

NZ economy: storm clouds building

The latest BusinessNZ Planning Forecast reveals that while things might look favourable at first, there are several factors which are still cause for economic concern. Both Treasury and the Reserve Bank have predicted the economy will go into a shallow recession by...

Better approach to business payments needed

BusinessNZ welcomes additions to the Green List

It is positive to see Government recognise the extreme skill shortages affecting business with changes to immigration settings today, says BusinessNZ Chief Executive Kirk Hope. “Pushing out accreditation will save an estimated $30 million in compliance costs next year...

Better approach to business payments needed

BusinessNZ Network available to help

BusinessNZ will not be the default negotiator for Fair Pay Agreements but will provide assistance to employers who are required to negotiate an FPA with unions. BusinessNZ Advocacy Director Catherine Beard says the organisation will not take the Government’s monetary...

Better approach to business payments needed

Wage pressure feeds inflation

Increasing the wage thresholds for international skills and talent is unnecessary and will feed inflation, says BusinessNZ Chief Executive Kirk Hope. "In the current environment of extreme skill shortages, high inflation, negative net migration and ongoing global...

Better approach to business payments needed

FPAs on ILO list

The Government’s proposal to introduce compulsory wage bargaining through Fair Pay Agreements has put New Zealand on a Top 40 list for possible prosecution by the International Labour Organisation.