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Working New Zealanders are getting more in their back pockets under the Coalition Government’s economic plan.

  • Hon Willie Jackson
  • Employment

The Provincial Growth Fund will invest over $2.27 million to promote skills, training and employment in disadvantaged areas of Tairāwhiti, Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones and Employment Minister Willie Jackson announced today.

  • Hon Shane Jones
  • Hon Willie Jackson
  • Employment
  • Regional Economic Development

More rangatahi in Wairoa will soon have the support of Wairoa Young Achievers Trust (WYAT) through the Government’s He Poutama Rangatahi (HPR) scheme, announced by Employment Minister Willie Jackson today.

  • Hon Willie Jackson
  • Employment

Construction businesses in partnership with the Ministry of Social Development will start using virtual reality technology to prepare people for jobs in the industry, Minister for Social Development Carmel Sepuloni and Employment Minister Willie Jackson announced today.

  • Hon Carmel Sepuloni
  • Hon Willie Jackson
  • Employment
  • Social Development

The Kaikohe community is set to benefit from the establishment of a wide-ranging skills and employment programme, Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones announced today.

  • Hon Shane Jones
  • Hon Willie Jackson
  • Employment
  • Regional Economic Development

The Provincial Growth Fund (PGF) will invest $3.88 million in a range of digital, work and life skills training for young unemployed people in Northland, Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones and Employment Minister Willie Jackson announced today in Northland.

  • Hon Shane Jones
  • Hon Willie Jackson
  • Employment
  • Regional Economic Development

Many more young New Zealanders will be helped into work and training with the expansion of the successful Mana in Mahi programme, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Employment Minister Willie Jackson said today.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Hon Willie Jackson
  • Employment

Making sure all New Zealanders can achieve their potential by developing skills, finding secure employment and having fulfilling careers is the driving force for the Government’s Employment Strategy, released today by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Employment Minister Willie Jackson.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Hon Willie Jackson
  • Prime Minister
  • Employment

The Provincial Growth Fund (PGF) will invest to help a Gisborne orchard expand its business and put hard to place unemployed into year-round permanent jobs, Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones and Employment Minister Willie Jackson announced today.

  • Hon Shane Jones
  • Hon Willie Jackson
  • Employment
  • Regional Economic Development

The Provincial Growth Fund (PGF) will invest $948,000 in getting rangatahi work ready in the Wairarapa, Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones and Employment Minister Willie Jackson announced today.

  • Hon Shane Jones
  • Hon Willie Jackson
  • Employment
  • Regional Economic Development

The Government is supporting a primarily female training programme in Northland that will help address labour shortages in the male-dominated forestry industry, Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones and Employment Minister Willi

  • Hon Shane Jones
  • Hon Willie Jackson
  • Employment
  • Forestry
  • Regional Economic Development

The Coalition Government also wants to make sure all New Zealanders can share in the opportunities provided by the digital age by both increasing the availability of technology, and programmes for people to acquire the skills required to use it. We also want to foster innovation and encourage smaller start-ups to expand, which will in turn help improve productivity, wages and drive export growth.

  • Hon Dr Megan Woods
  • Hon Chris Hipkins
  • Hon David Parker
  • Hon Willie Jackson
  • Economic Development
  • Education
  • Employment
  • Research, Science and Innovation

The Wellbeing Budget focuses on ways to give Māori and Pacific peoples more scope to lift their own wellbeing. When Māori and Pacific peoples set their own wellbeing goals and aspirations and when we as a Government use our ability to change the system and help Māori and Pacific peoples achieve those aspirations – equality can start to be a reality.

  • Hon Kelvin Davis
  • Hon Nanaia Mahuta
  • Hon Jenny Salesa
  • Hon Peeni Henare
  • Hon Willie Jackson
  • Hon Aupito William Sio
  • Corrections
  • Education
  • Employment
  • Health
  • Māori Development
  • Pacific Peoples
  • Whānau Ora

The Provincial Growth Fund (PGF) is investing in three programmes to help unemployed people into future jobs generated by economic growth in the Bay of Plenty.

  • Hon Shane Jones
  • Hon Willie Jackson
  • Employment
  • Regional Economic Development

A drop in the unemployment rate to 4.2 per cent shows the Government’s approach to supporting employment is working.

  • Hon Willie Jackson
  • Employment

An initiative to drive economic revival in the Tolaga Bay area by fostering the success of grass-roots business, and to develop Tolaga Bay as a tourist destination was launched today by Minister of Employment, Willie Jackson.

  • Hon Willie Jackson
  • Employment

Pae Aronui, a skills and employment initiative for urban rangatahi was launched in Hamilton today by Employment and Associate Māori Development Minister Willie Jackson.

  • Hon Willie Jackson
  • Employment

A new skills assessment tool looking at innovative ways to identify talent and bridge the gap between job seekers and employers was launched today by Employment Minister Willie Jackson.

  • Hon Willie Jackson
  • Employment
  • Hon Shane Jones
  • Hon Willie Jackson
  • Employment
  • Regional Economic Development

The Government will be providing skills training to Northland youth to help them get jobs in the forestry sector with the support of funding from the Provincial Growth Fund in the Eco Toa programme, Minister of Employment Willie Jackson announced

  • Hon Shane Jones
  • Hon Willie Jackson
  • Employment
  • Regional Economic Development

A new employment hub in Whakatāne will help get more rangatahi earning and learning Employment Minister Willie Jackson said today at the opening of the Tū Māia Rangatahi Hub.

  • Hon Willie Jackson
  • Employment

Employment Minister Willie Jackson, along with Conservation Minister Eugenie Sage, today announced the launch of a new training programme targeting the Waiapu catchment, Ka Hao te Rangatahi. The programme is designed to develop young people’s skills through conservation and erosion management.

  • Hon Willie Jackson
  • Hon Eugenie Sage
  • Conservation
  • Employment

The Employment Minister acknowledges the release of the Household Labour Force Survey which shows an unemployment rate of 4.3%, the second lowest in nearly a decade.

  • Hon Willie Jackson
  • Employment

Employment Minister Willie Jackson has welcomed additional funding to support more young people in regional New Zealand to gain sustained employment.

  • Hon Willie Jackson
  • Employment