Mike Yardley is a Christchurch-based writer of current events and travel and has written Stuff’s column for 15 years.
opinion: When was virtually all layers of our workforce suffering from such a serious shortage?
Hospitality, tourism, construction, engineering, transportation, retail, information technology, primary healthcare, hospitality care, senior care, electrical engineers, mechanics, plumbers, veterinarians, agriculture, horticulture, viticulture, education … it’s all Consume.
Has our serious labor shortage ever been widespread? No matter what sector you talk to, employers continue to face serious difficulties in hiring the right staff.
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According to NZIER’s recent quarterly Business Confidence Survey, a record 67% of companies reported problems finding unskilled workers. Even more proportions are struggling to secure skilled staff.
Temptation is flowing thick and fast to seduce, poach, or pocket aspiring workers, as clearly demonstrated by Air New Zealand’s $ 1,400 cash splash.
Our immigration rules have been relaxed by a more streamlined route to permanent residence for skilled immigrants. But lowering the drawbridge is certainly a two-way path.
As of April, we recorded a net annual transition loss of 8700. This is the largest net outflow in 10 years.
Kiwibank Chief Economist Jarodkar predicts a net loss of 20,000 migrants by the end of the year, which is likely to snowball.
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Many industries, including hospitality, tourism, construction, information technology, healthcare electricians, and various trades, are experiencing labor shortages.
Infometrics’ Brad Olsen estimates that 40,000 kiwis will decamp in their large OE this year, but Australia is actively courting kiwis at higher wages across a vast sector.
Obviously, a stagnant escape only exacerbates the serious shortages that plague our labor market.
Sectors such as hospitality are chronically exposed, with people between the ages of 15 and 24 accounting for 40% of the normal workforce.
With tens of thousands of jobs begging now, tens of thousands of fully competent working-age kiwis sticking to Dole certainly remain a financial and moral failure.
Yes, 11,000 fewer people are supported by job seekers than they were a year ago.
But given the bumper employment market, how do you accept that 173,000 people are enjoying the benefits?
Reliance on welfare has grown rapidly since the Labor Party took office nearly five years ago.
In December 2017, the main profit was 289,788, 9.7% of the working-age population. It has grown to 11% today.
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Today, fewer people are supporting job seekers than they were a year ago.
Budget financial and economic updates do not anticipate a decline in key benefits over the next four years.
Under Labor supervision, job seekers’ support recipients have skyrocketed from 123,042 four years ago to 173,735 today.
Despite the recent decline, it represents a 42% increase in four and a half years.
But, as I have discussed earlier, my biggest concern is the surge in long-term benefits.
About 62% of current job seekers have benefited from it for over 12 months.
In December 2017, there were a total of 69,000 job seeker recipients. today? 110,000-60% increase.
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The number of people receiving job seeker support is increasing under the supervision of Minister for Social Development Carmel Sepuloni.
To make matters worse, under parliamentary cross-examination last week, Minister for Social Development Carmel Sepuloni said that 92% of people have been supported by job seekers for three to five consecutive years, for a total of 23,000. I was forced to reveal that it had exploded.
Seproni claims that 12,000 of these job seeker support recipients fall into the health subcategory rather than the out-of-the-box category.
However, even among out-of-the-box recipients, these numbers have doubled from 5059 to 10,056.
How kind are you waiting vaguely and so many people narrowing their horizons and depleting their lives with permanent dependence?
And what meaningful efforts are being made to increase the potential of so many job seekers who have identified health problems? They are not as serious a health-related issue as changing their benefit status to supported living expenses.
Work and Income provides comprehensive support for getting people back to work, including clothing, travel and living expenses.
The growth of established dependence when the country is full of excess work available is not a transformation, but a country’s perplexity.
If we can’t fundamentally regain our dependence on welfare now, it will never happen.
The public spits out a lot of rhetoric about taking a “social investment” approach to tackle welfare. It is thanks to New Zealand to explain exactly how Labor intends to succeed where it fails.
How do you crack the whip to restore dignity and purpose to the lives of tens of thousands of New Zealanders?