New Zealand employers are losing the battle to keep staff, even as they offer generous pay increases of up to 6%, a remuneration survey says. The survey, by employment consultancy Hockem shows organisations have increased fixed packages by a median of 5.2 per cent to hold onto their existing workforce. Hockem found that those who
Clean Start is an initiative spurred by trade unions to bring industry participants and customers to work together to raise standards of cleaning and create better conditions and remunerations for employees. The aim of Clean Start is to promote a set of principles to set a fair but commercially viable benchmark for the whole industry.