LGNZ President Dave Cull told delegates at the Climate Change and Business Conference this morning that while businesses have led the charge to quantify the financial impact of climate change on their balance sheets, they need to expand their risk awareness to whether they will be able to operate at all.

Engineering New Zealand is creating an expert engineering panel to help resolve outstanding insurance claims, as part of the Government’s new Greater Christchurch Claims Resolution Service.

Chorus has today said that it has immediately commissioned a fully independent review relating to the employment practices of small business sub-contractors working on the Ultra-fast Broadband network.

“Treasury’s consultation process on a new independent infrastructure body has come at an opportune time, with news that a major Chinese company has bid to build and operate the long awaited Penlink project highlighting the importance of an expert entity interfacing with the market and guiding procurement,” says Stephen Selwood CEO of Infrastructure NZ.

Water-bottling industry – statement from New Zealand Trade and Enterprise

A new report from the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union shows the success of benefit sanctions, explains why efforts to make life on a benefit easier simply encourage a culture of welfare dependency and fraud, and exposes that more than one third of unemployment and single parent beneficiaries admit to failing on their obligation to seek employment.

E tū says the loss of 128 jobs at the Huhtamaki factory in Henderson is a devastating blow for workers there.

WorkSafe is reminding businesses to take their health and safety systems with them when they move or expand their operations before commencing operations. And to treat them as a priority during the move.

The Council of Trade Unions is holding today in Wellington the first ever Roundtable for government, businesses, Māori representatives, trade unions and environmentalists on a Just Transition.

E tū says it is supportive of new government initiatives to bolster recruitment and training in the construction industry.