MBIE was one of the first New Zealand government agencies to face the challenges of COVID-19 given the presence of our offshore visa processing office in Beijing, which needed to be shut down back in January. Since then, we have played an integral leadership role in supporting the Government's ‘Response’ effort and the ‘Recovery’ and ‘Rebuild’ components.
The Employment Relations Act 2000 will be amended to clarify contracting arrangements, simplify personal grievances and reduce complexity at the start of employment relationships.
The Government has reintroduced the ability to make pay deductions in response to partial strikes.
This page provides information about the institutions included in the Kitmap survey, defining research infrastucture and limitations of the survey data.
This section outlines the Commerce Commission’s market study into New Zealand’s retail grocery sector and provides an overview of the grocery industry and the recent Grocery Industry Competition Act 2023.
In 2018-19, the independent Electricity Price Review investigated whether the electricity market was delivering a fair and equitable price to consumers and considered improvements to future-proof the sector and its governance structures. In 2019-20, the Government established new workstreams to action many of the Review’s recommendations.