Even the financial markets watchdog cannot calculate holiday pay properly
The Financial Markets Authority spends its days telling listed companies, fund managers and financial advisers to get their systems, disclosures and controls right. Now it has admitted its own holiday pay method breached employment law. The irony is obvious. The more useful lesson...
Should New Zealand cap the number of resident visas it grants each year?
New Zealand’s sole direct pipe to Southeast Asia is getting wider
The only door to Southeast Asia is getting wider Malaysia Airlines is targeting double-daily service to Auckland, lifting from the current...
Four AI data centres would out-consume Tiwai Point smelter
A flat grid meets a fivefold jump New Zealand's electricity system has been running close to flat for years. Total consumption...
How does a North Korean state operative end up on a Kiwi payroll?
The HR shortcut that became a sanctions problem A remote IT contract is meant to be the easy hire. Post the...
The cheapest $500m export boost on offer is stuck in a 1985 rulebook
New Zealand's hunt for export growth usually ends in a subsidy scheme, a trade mission or a new agency. The...
