• 2012-01-17
  Cool heads needed at the port
  

   The Auckland port has long been a battlefield, both industrial and ideological. The 1951 dispute remains an epochal event and even now it can be perilous in some company to refer to it as a strike rather than a lockout.

• 2012-01-17
  Literacy skills vital for increasing productivity at work
  

   The importance of workforce literacy in boosting productivity, profitability and to support New Zealand's economic growth strategy is being increasingly recognised.

  Yet efforts to improve it are hampered by a fragmented and under-resourced approach.

   

• 2012-01-17
  Loosen up for better job fit
  

   As the economy hopefully picks up, employers may have a harder time finding the candidates they want. But Lincoln Crawley, managing director for ManpowerGroup of Australia and New Zealand, says tools such as "employability profiles" can help.

• 2012-01-17
  Port seeking three new contractors
  

   Ports of Auckland plans to approach at least three outside stevedore contractors this week in a bid to break an 11-month impasse with its own workers, whose strikes have been blamed for the loss of major customers.

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