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Auckland will vote for building more roads faster

Friday, 1 April 2005, 3:51 pm | Employers And Manufacturers Association

National leader Don Brash’s message today will strike an immediate chord with Auckland’s overtaxed and frustrated road users, the Employers & Manufacturers Association (Northern) says. More >>

Get over embarrassment of holidays mistake

Thursday, 24 March 2005, 4:01 pm | Employers And Manufacturers Association

The Easter holidays period has brought an avalanche of calls from employers about the Holidays Act, says David Lowe, Employment Services Manager for the Employers & Manufacturers Association (Northern). More >>

Auckland’s transport planning off the rails

Wednesday, 23 March 2005, 1:48 pm | Employers And Manufacturers Association

Dropping the Avondale link to the North Western highway from the region’s 10 year land transport plan demonstrates that Auckland’s transport planning has gone off the rails, the Employers & Manufacturers Association (Northern) says. More >>

EMA’s role on wage setting to provide an advocate

Thursday, 10 March 2005, 2:07 pm | Employers And Manufacturers Association

Though opposed to multi employer collective agreements (MECA’s), the Employers & Manufacturers Association (Northern) says that that has nothing to do with the present wage negotiations with the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union. More >>

Govt income rise

Tuesday, 1 March 2005, 5:01 pm | Employers And Manufacturers Association

Government's income from tax has been rising nearly three times faster than the average person's income the Employers & Manufacturers Association (Northern) says. More >>

Taxing petrol easy; building roads hard

Tuesday, 1 March 2005, 4:34 pm | Employers And Manufacturers Association

Raising the petrol tax by 5 cents a litre is the easy bit, but getting new road projects underway is proving too hard for Government, the Employers & Manufacturers Association (Northern) says. More >>

Employers misled by NZQA across all NCEA results

Tuesday, 22 February 2005, 1:27 pm | Employers And Manufacturers Association

The NCEA fiasco is not confined to the Scholarship year but affects levels one and two at least to the same extent, the Employers & Manufacturers Association (Northern) says. More >>

Concern doubles over ballooning Govt. spending

Thursday, 17 February 2005, 2:21 pm | Employers And Manufacturers Association

Finance Minister Dr Cullen's acknowledged concern over Government's ballooning $3 billion more in spending each year should be matched by concern over the rapid expansion of his Government's administration, says the Employers & Manufacturers Association ... More >>

Employment Court ruling sensible, practical

Tuesday, 15 February 2005, 5:34 pm | Employers And Manufacturers Association

In the first case brought to clarify the Holidays Act, the Employment Court has ruled in favour of the preferences of those operating a workplace over the uncertainties and ambiguity of the new law. More >>

Manufacturing Strategy Needs A Change Of Attitude

Thursday, 10 February 2005, 11:06 pm | Employers And Manufacturers Association

"The governments announcement of a Manufacturing Summit is welcomed" says Alasdair Thompson, chief executive, Employers and Manufactures Association (Northern). More >>

NCEA Flawed for Scholarship

Wednesday, 9 February 2005, 4:13 pm | Employers And Manufacturers Association

"The recent public assurance employers were given by the NZ Qualifications Authority that the NCEA is always consistent between schools and over time is again blown apart," said Alasdair Thompson, Chief Executive of the Employers & Manufacturers Association. More >>

Detail on boosting productivity, employment needed

Thursday, 3 February 2005, 10:47 am | Employers And Manufacturers Association

The Prime Minister's address to Parliament yesterday created an information vacuum, the Employers & Manufacturers Association (Northern) says. More >>

NZ Institute's work on savings commended

Thursday, 3 February 2005, 10:33 am | Employers And Manufacturers Association

The Employers & Manufacturers Association (Northern) congratulated the NZ Institute today on its paper discussing the economic importance of savings: Home is where the money is. More >>

Manufacturers underpinning employment, expansion

Friday, 28 January 2005, 10:24 am | Employers And Manufacturers Association

Manufacturing action continues to be expand, according to the ANZ/Business NZ Performance of Manufacturing Index (PMI) which registered 58.1 for December, the highest for a December period since the survey began over two and a half years ago. More >>

Employers want more beneficiaries offered work

Tuesday, 25 January 2005, 1:01 pm | Employers And Manufacturers Association

Employers strongly support the testing of everyone on a benefit for literacy and numeracy, says the chief executive of the Employers & Manufacturers Association (Northern), Alasdair Thompson. His comments were in advance of Dr Brash's Orewa speech today. More >>

NCEA takes employers back to schools

Monday, 10 January 2005, 2:45 pm | Employers And Manufacturers Association

Employers are expressing concern that the records of achievement in NCEA subjects cannot be easily compared either between schools, or from year to year. They are therefore unable to choose fairly between applicants for a job. More >>

Auckland's Manufacturers Lead Expansion

Friday, 17 December 2004, 11:59 am | Employers And Manufacturers Association

Manufacturers in the north, and the larger companies amongst them, are expanding faster than elsewhere in the country, according to the ANZ/Business NZ Performance of Manufacturing Index for November. The Employers & Manufacturers Association ... More >>

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