The Employment Relations Amendment Act rewired four things about how you hire, fire and classify contractors back in February. Six months on, I'd guess fewer than one in five small businesses have updated a single template to match it.
Retail NZ's own numbers show apparel sales down for a fourth straight month and hospitality spend still falling. Forty-one percent of firms raised prices last quarter anyway. The other fifty-nine percent didn't decide not to. They just didn't decide.
