Total hours worked – seasonally adjusted
The total number of actual hours worked per week decreased by 0.4 percent during the
December 2009 quarter to reach 70,907,000 hours. The number of usual hours worked per week
increased slightly during the same period, up by 0.1 percent to 78,565,000 hours. On an annual
basis, both the total number of actual and usual hours worked per week decreased by 3.2
percent and 2.2 percent, respectively.

European Maori Pacific Peoples Asian
Dec 07 2.5 7.5 5.7 5.3
Mar 08 3.4 8.9 8.2 5.7
Jun 08 3.1 7.3 6.3 5.1
Sep 08 3.4 8.2 7.3 4.6
Dec 08 3.5 8.6 7.8 6.1
Mar 09 4.5 11.2 13.1 6.9
Jun 09 4.5 12 12.9 7.6
Sep 09 5.0 13 13.2 8.4
Dec 09 5.3 14.8 14.3 9.1
Not these are actuals not the headline seasonally adjusted unemployment rates. But then so are the age group figures in David’s graphs

by Sandra Conchie | 5th February 2010

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The Greenpeace protesters who illegally boarded a cargo ship waiting to dock at the Port of Tauranga have settled a dispute over reparation, handing over a cheque yesterday for $31,648.88.

The reparation bill had originally been set at $112,000.

The 14-hour drama began at 6am on September 16 when 14 activists boarded the East Ambition as it anchored offshore.

The protesters prevented the freighter, which they claimed was loaded with palm kernel animal feed from Indonesia, from entering the port.

Using titanium chains and armed with hammocks, sleeping bags and enough food to last 48 hours, the protesters secured themselves to parts of the vessel.

Police said the protest action, which was aimed at convincing Fonterra to halt its importation of palm kernel from Indonesia because of that country’s role in the destruction of rainforests, was well organised.

Read more in today’s Bay of Plenty Times

http://www.smh.com.au/news/entertainment/arts/whooping-clapping-and-stripping-triumphantly/2010/02/04/1265151940567.html

Why govt. should get the hell out of peoples lives.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/mining-energy/rio-tinto-warns-of-pilbara-industrial-relations-war/story-e6frg9df-1225826908285

and note the bit that tells of seamen getting a $50,000 rise.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/markets/shares-lose-30bn-on-europe-debt-fears-us-job-figures/story-e6frg916-1225827224585

It will take time to come out of the last 18 months or so. Also those stats published can be e from data gathered up to two months prior to publication and things have picked up business wise into this year.

One of the reasons with recession ended so quickly was due to really quick action by governments, – I put this down to the technological age we now live in, information was gathered quickly and efforts were made to stop the bleeding as fast as possible . This simply was not possible in previous major recessions.

No prime Minister can work miracles in an economy as small as ours in such a short space of time, we are such a small place many NZers don’t realise our economy is not that a a decent size US or European City.

Also those stats do not take into account the huge number of our fellow countrymen who are totally unemployable, there are people out there who as long as their backside point to the ground will never work in their entire lives. These are the Harris family types from Christchurch, they wil take tax dollars for every breath they take for ever.

Never happens…..unless you are a Farmer.

Perhaps the government could do something to help out private enterprise. How about the actually bring back youth rates. that’d be doing something at least. Are you opposed to that, or is that government interference in private enterprise?

Chin up mate, I know exactly what you are going through as I have been in the same position in the past.

Keep at it, if you are offering a good service and a great product then the good times will return.

It’s hardly surprising that “a 10 year high in unemployment” follows the biggest global economy hiccup in nearly a century. It takes time to grow back out of troughs.

You see. According to DPF’s figures above “Total jobless increases from 254,000 to 276,000 – this includes 86,000 not seeking work and 31,000 not available for work.”

That makes 159,000 people collecting the dole that should be working. Now using a conservative average figure of say $170 per person; thats $1,405,560,000,00 (1.4 Billion) dollars per year of tax payer money that the government is spending. Hell even if we assume that every single one of those people is under 20 and living at home (A dole figure of $126), it’s still over one billion dollars.

I want to know what the governments plan is to reduce that expense which is paid straight out of our tax dollars. Pretty simple question really. Isn’t it?

At the moment the only plan I see is to sit and wait. Really living up to the ‘Do Nothing’ tag aren’t they.

As these people will never go near the Winze offices, since they know they will never be eligable for the Unemployment Benefit anyway, there is no way of knowing how many there actually are.

Based on this fact the Unemployment figure must inevitably be far higher than published, but, as noted, no-one can ever know.

Just a thought, but, IMHO, a relevant one.