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A quarter of New Zealand's pilots face redundancy
Almost a quarter of the country’s 2,400 pilots may be out of a job unless the New Zealand Airline Pilots’ Association can bring that number down.Air New Zealand is looking to make 387 pilots redundant as part of massive cost-cutting measures after it slashed capacity to around 5...
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Manufacturers push for managed restart of exports
Specialist engineering firm AW Fraser wants approval to partially reopen its business so that it can continue supplying essential services here and overseas.The specialist bearing maker is the only continuous casting bronze foundry in Australasia. It exports 90 percent of its pro...
Economy
NZIER modelling points to 100% business pessimism
Just how bad is business confidence? It’s bad, and it’s far from over.The latest quarterly survey of business opinion by the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research included comments only up to March 20, six days before the national covid-19 lockdown kicked in. If the survey...
Services
Cyber-attackers capitalise on pandemic anxiety
The rapid shift to get hundreds of thousands of Kiwis working from home has lifted the nation's vulnerability to cyber attacks and organisations are being urged to make sure they protect their systems. Those systems are more vulnerable now, not just because of the shift to work-f...
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