Employer Bulletin | 15 September
Total actual filled jobs in the June 2025 quarter were 2.26 million.
In the June 2025 quarter (compared with the March 2025 quarter):
- total seasonally adjusted filled jobs were down 0.5% (10,560 jobs).
For the year ended June 2025 (compared with the year ended June 2024):
- total gross earnings were up 1.5% ($2.6 billion).
An annual comparison is used for earnings to account for payroll timing differences between quarters. At an industry level, the largest changes in seasonally adjusted filled jobs in the June 2025 quarter, compared with the March 2025 quarter, were in:
- construction – down 1.3% (2,315 jobs)
- health care and social assistance – up 0.7% (1,885 jobs)
- accommodation and food services – down 1.2% (1,869 jobs)
- administrative and support services – down 1.4% (1,337 jobs)
- professional, scientific, and technical services – down 0.7% (1,225 jobs)
In today’s Bulletin:
- Employee without employment agreement unjustifiably dismissed after refusing a drug test
- Employee receives full value of penalties for employer’s breaches of employment law
- Interim reinstatement denied following bullying dismissal
- Unjustified disadvantages do not lead to employee’s constructive dismissal
- Employer muddles process on bullying allegation
- Six news updates of interest for employers including: First supercritical geothermal site chosen; New model opens pathways to farm ownership for Kiwis; Job check redesign; Endeavour Fund backs 19 Research Programmes to deliver benefits for New Zealand; Business employment data: June 2025 quarter, and Business financial data: June 2025 quarter.
- Ten bills open for submission
If you have any questions, about this case or other employment relation matters, call the Advice Line team on 0800 800 362.
