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Associate Social Development and Employment Minister Rick Barker and Corrections Minister Paul Swain today announced details of the first stage of the strategy to get more released prisoners into work.

Associate Social Development and Employment Minister Rick Barker and Corrections Minister Paul Swain today announced details of the first stage of the strategy to get more released prisoners into work.

Rick Barker Launches the Family Violence Intervention Programme for the East Coast.

There are nearly 10,000 less long-term unemployed people being supported on the unemployment benefit than in March 2000

the number of Thames 18-24 year olds on the unemployment benefit has dropped by a staggering 81 per cent over the last 6 years.

Good morning to you all. It’s a pleasure for me to join you today for the launch of the Whangarei Youth Transitions Service.

Changes to unemployment benefit stand-down come in on May 1 this year.

Supported employment for sickness and invalid beneficiaries is changing lives.

W & i Seasonal Co-ordinator in full swing as harvest season starts

Delivery: 7pm Port of Napier
Thank you for inviting me to speak this evening. It is exciting to see so many cadets completing their horticultural training and others getting their first year scholarships.

Speech by Rick Barker launching Seasonal Solutions, the first step in delivering a consistent labour supply to Central Otago growers for the 2004/05 season

Seasonal Solutions has been launched -- helping to deliver a consistent labour supply to Central Otago growers

This new Work and Income job partnership will see around 110 people trained as drivers around New Zealand by mid next year.

A new industry partnership addressing the needs of people requiring skills and jobs as well as industry driver shortages.

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Rick Barker

The government is improving job prospects, encouraging more employment, investing in long-term social services such as health and education and modernising the nation's infrastructure

During a visit to Marlborough Rick Barker warned that poor labour conditions in vineyards had to be addressed as part of an agreed long-term strategy.

Six housing partnerships worth $3.2 million have begun

The number of young people receiving the unemployment benefit has fallen by more than 60% since 1999

Partnership with Industry opens the Gateway

Fewer people on the unemployment benefit is good news for Hawke's Bay

Work and Income's third Jobs Jolt employment programme with industry has been launched

Getting more people into jobs in the retail sector is the focus of a new government/industry relationship agreement launched this week

Work and Income is setting the trend with its new public service cadetship programme