Employee versus contractor

While in 2024 220,000 New Zealanders were working multiple jobs, today - driven by the rising gig economy and cost-of-living pressures - nea...

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Who holds the power?

I was thinking about societal power, and how companies fit into that power structure... or, at times, dominate it. Why? Because we created i...

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No body to incarcerate

There is a saying attributed to UK peer and - as Lord Chancellor, head of the courts - Baron Thurlow, which I had heard along the lines of c...

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Contractor or employee?

The thorny issue of whether a worker is a contractor or an employee should not actually be that thorny; we simply need to "focus on the...

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Reviewing business tasks, processes and plant

While any time is a good time to review what we do, sometimes it is easier to think about those things at the start of a new year, and the...

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Being a Contract Lecturer

A 'contract' lecturer is what we call being an 'adjunct', 'temporary' or a 'casual' lecturer here in New Z...

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