Auckland

Regional report 2006 Labour Market Reports
The regional reports provide information on recent trends and the outlook for labour market outcomes in each region.

Regional Report. Labour Market Reports [pdf 400 KB, 5 pages]
The regional reports provide information on recent trends and the outlook for labour market outcomes in each region.

Regional Labour Market Summary. workINSIGHT posters [pdf 90 KB, 1 page]
A poster summarising key labour market statistics for each region.

Job Vacancy Data. Job Vacancy Monitoring Programme [csv 74 KB]
Spreadsheet files containing advertised vacancies by occupation and region from 2002.

HYDRAULIC TRUCK TRAY - Special Investigators Episode 2 June 2006
A normally cautious man, earth-moving business owner Lindsay Rankin knew the split-second before the hydraulics on his truck failed, that he'd made a crucial error of judgement.

PLASTERBOARD - Special Investigators Episode 2 June 2006
Playing in a partly completed house near his home ended tragically for a seven-year-old, West Auckland boy in June 2004. Sheets of plasterboard that had been left leaning against a wall on the unsecured building site fell and fatally crushed him.

INCINERATOR BURN - Special Investigators Episode 4 June 2006
A 20-year old worker at a West Auckland furniture factory suffered burns to his face from a fire flash when using an outdoor incinerator in August 2004. He was new to his job at Trewheeler Manufacturing, having started a little over a week before the accident occurred.

Youth transitions workINSIGHT: edition 6 [pdf 96 KB, 2 pages]
The Government has a shared goal with the Mayors Taskforce for Jobs: that, by 2007, all 15–19 year olds are in employment, education, training or some other option that leads to long-term economic independence and well-being.

Making the most of every situation Immigration Matters May 2005 [pdf 707 KB, 8 pages]
Receiving a scholarship from Foreign Affairs Minister Phil Goff earlier this year meant more than the $3000 prize money to Korean-born student Grace Sung-Eun Kim.

Expectations fulfilled Immigration Matters May 2005 [pdf 707 KB, 8 pages]
New Zealand’s reputation as a good country in which to raise children was one of the main reasons Nigerian-born couple Love and Rebecca Chile decided to immigrate in the late

Mission electrical. Making it work December 2004 [PDF 550 KB, 4 pages]
Nick Chandler heads to London in early December on a mission to bring skilled electricians to New Zealand.

Supporting Small Business. Making it work December 200 [PDF 550 KB, 4 pages]
A specialised service has been set up within the Department of Labour to help small and medium-sized businesses improve their workplace practices.

Employer Accreditation ‘streamlines’ process. Making it work September 2004 [PDF 577 KB, 4 pages]
Fisher and Paykel Appliances is one of hundreds of New Zealand companies bene.ting from the Employer Accreditation scheme run by the immigration service of the Department of Labour.

Future Skills Demand in Manukau. workINSIGHT: edition 5 [pdf 106 KB, 3 pages]
Planning ahead to close the skills gap

Smoothing the Way. Making it work May 2004 [PDF 309 KB, 2 pages]
Employers are getting a chance to have their needs and concerns about immigration aired, thanks to a new initiative from the New Zealand Immigration Service.

Multicultural workers spice up the workplace. People Power - Successful Diversity at work [pdf 1.2MB, 44 pages]
Businesses struggling to fi nd hard-working, industrious employees should look at recent migrants and the long-term unemployed as a source of quality workers, maintains Auckland-based company Contract Warehousing

Employee innovations pay healthy dividends for glass company. People Power - Successful Diversity at work [pdf 1.2MB, 44 pages]
Auckland company ACI Glass Packaging has found that since it brought in training, education and health programmes, absenteeism and overtime hours worked at its Penrose factory have been reduced.

You have to be mad to work here. People Power - Successful Diversity at work [pdf 1.2MB, 44 pages]
Auckland health consultancy Mind and Body practises what it preaches. It provides advice on service development for health providers as well as programmes for people with mental illness, and all of Mind and Body’s 14 staff have had personal experience of mental illness.

Straight 2 Work in Plumbing. Skills Action June 2004
Work and Income has launched its fourth Job Partnership agreement with Industry. The aim? Increasing the supply of skilled plumbers, gasfitters and drainlayers around New Zealand.

Workplace Literacy. workINSIGHT: edition 3 [pdf 56 KB, 2 pages]
David Brumbly, chief executive of Rotoform Plastics, explains how his business has benefited from workplace literacy training.