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Hastings employer sentenced for employing an illegal worker
Thursday, 13 September 2018, 10:13 am | Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment
A takeaway and pizza delivery store and its former owner have been sentenced for unlawfully employing a worker and aiding a person to breach visa conditions. More >>
Tourism Domain Data Plan released today
Friday, 7 September 2018, 2:02 pm | Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment
Tourism Domain Data Plan released today Published today by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, the Tourism Data Domain Plan sets out the main priorities for tourism statistics. Based on agreement by industry and government stakeholders, ... More >>
KiwiBuild announces opportunity for offsite manufacturers
Thursday, 6 September 2018, 3:52 pm | Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment
KiwiBuild has today issued an Invitation To Participate (ITP) to offsite manufacturers of housing solutions to support the delivery of 100,000 new affordable homes over the next ten years. More >>
Understanding sex industry rights and legal obligations
Saturday, 1 September 2018, 1:24 pm | Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment
Immigration New Zealand is taking a proactive approach to better understanding issues within the sex industry as part of wider work on exploitation. More >>
Tourism spending data for July 2018 released
Thursday, 30 August 2018, 11:09 am | Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment
The latest Monthly Regional Tourism Estimates (MRTEs) released today by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) show that tourism expenditure grew in all regions for the year ended July 2018. More >>
Three unlicensed electrical workers fined
Thursday, 23 August 2018, 1:35 pm | Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment
Three unlicensed electrical workers fined Three unlicensed electrical workers have been held to account for carrying out prescribed electrical work in three separate cases around the country. Edmund Matoe has been ordered to pay $4,500 plus costs ... More >>
Costly lesson for property managers at Tenancy Tribunal
Wednesday, 22 August 2018, 2:17 pm | Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment
The Tenancy Compliance and Investigations Team has successfully taken a Whanganui property management company to the Tenancy Tribunal for multiple counts of failing to lodge tenancy bonds, as well as failing to provide tenants with insulation statements, ... More >>
Job advertisements continue to rise in July 2018
Wednesday, 22 August 2018, 10:10 am | Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment
The number of online job advertisements rose by 0.6 per cent in the month of July 2018 and 7.1 per cent over the year, according to the latest Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) Jobs Online monthly data release. Jobs Online provides ... More >>
International visitor spending shows significant growth
Friday, 17 August 2018, 11:27 am | Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment
Spending by international visitors in New Zealand increased nine per cent to $11.1 billion for the year to June 2018, according to the latest International Visitor Survey results released today by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment ... More >>
RSE scheme better for business and New Zealand workers
Thursday, 16 August 2018, 2:08 pm | MBIE
The tenth annual survey of RSE employers is another win for the New Zealand horticulture and viticulture industries – and New Zealanders. More >>
Online pre-qualification opens for first KiwiBuild homes
Monday, 13 August 2018, 10:59 am | Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment
Owning an affordable starter home is a step closer for eligible New Zealanders with the launch of KiwiBuild’s new online pre-qualification portal today. First-time buyers and ‘second chancers’ can apply online to the KiwiBuild Unit to determine ... More >>
Taxi drivers owed nearly $100,000
Wednesday, 8 August 2018, 11:33 am | Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment
An employment determination has found a former taxi company in clear breach of minimum employment rights, by treating employees as contractors to save money. More >>
Builders lose LBP licenses after ‘renting’ out supervision
Thursday, 2 August 2018, 10:44 am | Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment
Two Auckland builders who were supervising other carpenters have had their licences cancelled and suspended for incompetence and negligence, after not overseeing structural building work. More >>
Builders fined for poor workmanship
Thursday, 2 August 2018, 10:43 am | Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment
Two Licenced Building Practitioners (LBP) have been held to account by the Building Practitioners Board (the Board) for their poor and negligent workmanship on house projects including foundations. More >>
Unlicensed roofer prosecuted
Friday, 27 July 2018, 9:09 am | Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment
An unlicensed roofer from Upper Hutt, who falsely held himself out as a Licensed Building Practitioner (LBP), has been prosecuted in the Wellington District Court. More >>
Tourism spending data for June 2018 released
Thursday, 26 July 2018, 11:05 am | Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment
The latest Monthly Regional Tourism Estimates (MRTEs) released today by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) show that tourism expenditure grew in all regions for the year ended June 2018. More >>
Suspension of six ACP CodeMark certificates
Thursday, 26 July 2018, 9:17 am | Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment
Following a number of high profile fires involving combustible, polyethylene core aluminium composite panels (ACPs) as external cladding, the use of the ACP has been the subject of a number of avenues of inquiry, both in New Zealand and internationally. More >>
NZ Mine Plans database goes online
Tuesday, 24 July 2018, 9:15 am | Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment
A searchable national catalogue of mine plans is now available to the public after the culmination of a three-year project by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment and WorkSafe New Zealand. The NZ Mine Plans database, which holds approximately ... More >>
Domino’s franchisees fined for employment breaches
Monday, 9 July 2018, 11:00 am | Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment
Two companies, which operated as Domino’s pizza franchises in Auckland, have been penalised $32,400 for serious breaches of employment law, following a Labour Inspectorate investigation. More >>
Unlicensed builder prosecuted
Friday, 6 July 2018, 2:44 pm | Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment
A Whangarei man has been prosecuted for doing work that should have been carried out by a Licensed Building Practitioner (LBP) with carpentry and roofing licenses. More >>
