New helpline for businesses
The Government has launched a new helpline to provide all NZ businesses with advice and to connect them with additional support. There is now a free helpline service for all New Zealand businesses. It can offer you:
specific advice and access to Government-funded business support
advice on what Alert Level 3 means for your business
general business advice and access to online resources and webinars connections to business advisory services
HR, employee relations, and health and safety advice.
To find out more call 0800 500 362 (North Island), or 0800 50 50 96 (South Island).
New tool launched to connect employers and job seekers
The Ministry for Social Development has announced several initiatives to help connect employers and job seekers.
The Keep New Zealand Working online recruitment tool connects job seekers directly to the employer making it quicker and easier for people to find work. The tool, now live, also provides online training courses. Use the new Keep New Zealand Working tool – https://www.jobs-during-covid.workandincome.govt.nz/hello
Other announcements to help people back into work include:
35 new employment centres across the country working with employers and job seekers under Level 3, over the phone and online. Under Level 2 face to face engagement with clients, employers and providers will begin.
A Keep New Zealand Working employment service for those directly impacted by Covid-19 who are not on a main benefit.
A Keep New Zealand Working fast-tracking service for those benefit applicants who need to re-engage quickly with the job market.
Working in partnership with industry to provide ‘quick upskilling solutions’, for example the new free online Community Health course with NZQA Unit Standards.
More details at – www.beehive.govt.nz/release/government-acts-quickly-keep-new-zealand-working
