This article looks at the ‘ins and outs’ of ending employment relationships during Covid-19 and its aftermath. Furlough or stand down The concept of a “furlough” is essentially an unpaid suspension of
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Stress is basically coping with change. Our minds adapt to situational change very protectively. The default setting for the human brain is one of defensiveness, it has had to be for our
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Covid-19 triggered a global hunt for personal protective equipment (PPE) and ventilators revealing a major weakness of the globalisation that guaranteed the availability of more convenient products. As far as PPE is
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New Zealand business needs a new approach from Government to industry development, regulation, projects and procurement if the economy is going to start to recover. In the media during the COVID-19 we
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The other day I heard the term EBITDAC (earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, amortisation and Coronavirus). It made me laugh, then I realised that as the new era ‘AC’ (After Coronavirus) kicks
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Just as past wars triggered innovation, COVID-19 is giving rise to smart, tech-savvy and efficient manufacturing opportunities. As NZ-born doctor Harold Gillies watched the wards of London’s Queen’s Hospital fill with wounded
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The Covid-19 pandemic has impacted on economic activity both in New Zealand and overseas. Some manufacturing plants and warehouses that were not on the essential services list were forced to cease operation
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There has been millions of words written about health and safety, some of it not too flattering, however with the arrival and management of the COVID 19 pandemic we have witnessed the
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When businesses throughout New Zealand were looking down the barrel of a 4 week lockdown from 26 March 2020, the reality of COVID-19 hit. The question of how to financially survive as
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Why is it so important to get things right with the COVID-19 response? Between March 17 and April 25, the USA went from 4,632 cases with 85 deaths to 948,079 cases and
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