Working with friends
Image: As the CCNZ President, Dave Howard welcomed a large gathering of guests at the CCNZ function at Parliament in November last year to celebrate...
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Improving recruitment in 2025
Due to the economic slump, recruitment volumes have been down significantly, as project uncertainty has increased and funding has slowed. However, companies have still been...
Preparing for emergencies deep underground
Image: Fire & Emergency rescue an injured worker in a tunnel. In September last year, the emergency sirens on Watercare’s Central Interceptor project sounded the...
A tinker’s budget
Frank Newman, an investment analyst and accountant who served two terms as a councillor on the Whangarei District Council, reviews the 2025 Budget’s ‘Investment Boost’....
Our $? billion industry celebrates 50 years
In this world of Trumponomics, fake news and artificial intelligence it’s getting hard to work out what to believe any more, but the headline above...
Meth spike a real worksite risk
Glenn Dobson, CEO of The Drug Detection Agency, writes that something has changed in our workplaces, and it’s not good. TDDA’s drug and alcohol screening...
Learning on the golf course
From building prestige golf courses to futureproofing the Capital’s water and sewer mains, and being crowned Wellington Wairarapa’s best excavator operator, Corey Olson’s career has...
Putting in the hard yards
Image: L to R: Garth Taylor, MIMICO’s Material Processing Business Manager; Nathan Gibbons, Stevenson Quarry Manager; and Rex Davies, MIMICO’s Managing Director, at the IOQ...
The case for a smaller government executive
Based on a speech David Seymour gave to the Tauranga Business Chamber last month where he floated an idea about how we could transform government...
Issuing incorrect producer statements
Yet another consequence of wrongful producer statements is liability under section 40, which is explained by Brendan Cash (Partner) and Matt Murray (Law Graduate) in...