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Contact Energy has been rated as the worst performer in Consumer NZ’s latest electricity satisfaction survey.
Its website boasts making “electricity easy and efficient, with competitive rates, friendly local service and flexible payment options”, but …
Read moreLast month, AUT research showed that New Zealand employees were reporting high rates of burnout, with 11% reporting being “burnt-out”, the most severe level of job burnout.
Twenty per cent of the 1000 participants surveyed …
Read moreThe Holidays (Increasing Sick Leave) Amendment Bill has passed its final hurdle in Parliament, and will see the amount of employer funded sick leave double from five to 10 days. The increase to sick leave …
Read moreOnline retail giant Amazon’s agreement with Jacinda Ardern’s Labour government to film Lord of the Rings TV shows in New Zealand includes a range of activities that have little to do with entertainment.
The Memorandum …
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Repeated lockdowns, with no exemptions or funding support for significant numbers of private primary healthcare practices is putting the viability of thousands of businesses and the wellbeing of the public at risk, warns …
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Suggestions by former ANZ Economist Cameron Bagrie that his former employer’s move to implement 40% Loan to Value restrictions shows it is thinking of the best interests of customers would be laughable if …
Read moreAuckland motor vehicle trader BNZ JP Euro Auto Parts has been fined $67,500 for misrepresenting consumers’ rights under the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 (CGA) and for failing to provide Consumer Information Notices (CINs).
BNZ JP …
Read moreThe Department of Internal Affairs has received hundreds of complaints over the last 24 hours about large-scale phishing scams. The scams involve people being sent a text message with a link to a website that …
Read moreThe supermarket industry is to be investigated by the Commerce Commission, the decision closely follows its $78,000 fine of Pak’nSave Mangere for pricing irregularities.
Consumer NZ chief executive Jon Duffy said his organisation had been …
Read moreAn Auckland man has been fined and sentenced to six months home detention and 200 hours community work, and his company fined and ordered to repay victims, for providing immigration advice without being licensed or …
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A new report, Exporting Corruption 2020: Assessing Enforcement of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, finds that active international enforcement against foreign bribery is shockingly low. Many of the World’s largest exporting countries fail …
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New Zealand’s Financial Markets Authority (FMA) is warning about scammers impersonating officials from the FMA as part of a money transfer scam.
The FMA was contacted by a woman who transferred a significant …
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Bullying and harassment (including sexual harassment) at work are complex problems, which can have significant impacts on workers, businesses, wider community, and the economy.
The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment is inviting …
Read moreChristchurch landlord Krishna Rani Saha has been ordered to pay $8,515.84 by the Tenancy Tribunal as a result of 36 applications brought forward by MBIE’s Tenancy Compliance and Investigations Team (TCIT).
The Tenancy Tribunal found …
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Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Ruanui is welcoming the decision of the Taranaki Regional Council (TRC) which has laid charges against Silver Fern Farms (SFF) for their role in the largest fish kill in …
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Workers whose jobs may be affected by the re-emergence of Covid-19 in Auckland will be supported by a new wage subsidy scheme and a simplified leave scheme.
The Government has today set out …
Read moreFor months we’ve heard the cry: oh how wonderfully New Zealand dealt with the Coronavirus! They did the tightest lockdown in the world! The coronavirus – no doubt astonished by the decisiveness and ferocity of …
Read moreThe New Zealand government should focus on crushing the cluster, not businesses who are being denied the opportunity to trade when they comply with lockdown and alert level hygiene, safety and security rules, says Auckland …
Read moreThe resignation of Westland Milk Products chief executive Toni Brendish almost a year to the day the company was sold to Chinese conglomerate Yili makes a mockery of assurances that there was no conflict of …
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The suggestion of putting border exemptions up for auction so large companies can bring in overseas executives and key workers is naïve and totally unfair,” says June Ranson, chair of the New Zealand …
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