Welcome to the final issue of 2022. We wake up sharing the planet with 8 billion other people. Sustainability of our global home is an individual responsibility. This month we look at ways we can each make a contribution.
How far have we come in the 50 years since NZ passed the Equal Pay Act? Statistics NZ show we still have a long way to go. We look at what that gap means, and what we, as employers, can do about it.
The impact of inflation on the cost of living continues to be felt across the country. To get inflation down, a casualty will be unemployment, the rate will go up. Treasury has forecast our “Maximum Sustainable Employment” at around 4%. Nothing is quite as simple as we’d like.
The record number of rain events over winter 2022 hit our regions, employers & growers particularly hard. With little time to dry out between down pours, even the most well thought out workplans went out the window.