“Discussing work options and exploring opportunities is so much easier when you are face-to-face,” Churchill said. Staff from the Ministry of Social Development would be on site to provide assistance.
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MSD regional commissioner for Nelson-Tasman, Marlborough and the West Coast, Craig Churchill, said the forum allowed job placement to happen quickly. Hundreds of jobs were on offer in the region, including work in horticulture, viticulture, food processing and sawmill operations. But with border restrictions and major developments on the horizon, a shortage of workers was likely to be one of Marlborough’s biggest challenges this year and next. The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment had established the Marlborough interim Regional Skills Leadership Group (iRSLG) to explore how best to support the region’s workforce needs post-Covid.
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Sarah Carberry has not slept properly in years as she looks after her 94-year-old mother, who suffers from Alzheimer s disease and lives in a granny flat on Carberry s isolated Marlborough Sounds property.
The number of people living with dementia will soon triple. One daughter tells JODY O’CALLAGHAN what it is like suffering carer burnout in a system already struggling. At 3am the motion sensor goes off. Sheila Gemmell is up pacing and rearranging furniture again. Later, Sarah Carberry can hear her 94-year-old mum s breathing change over the monitor, and shoots out to the granny flat, knowing she is having another of many mini strokes.
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Marlborough faces a workforce gap of up to 1800 from next year, as three large construction projects get underway.
As fears of no jobs give way to fears of too many jobs post-Covid, the Express will, over the coming weeks and months, delve into why there are still people looking for work and employers still looking for workers. Morgane Solignac reports. “There is work there,” a recruitment specialist explains. “If you want to work, we have plenty of work and I honestly don t know why we can t get enough workers, that makes it really frustrating.” Opt 4 Labour manager Campbell Brown described the Marlborough market as “tricky”, because they had job opportunities but not enough people applying for them.
The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), Bangladesh and the Institute of Policy Studies
of Sri Lanka (IPS), in partnership with Southern Voice, will host a webinar
focused on solutions to the challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic has created
in apparel supplying countries, in particular Bangladesh
and Sri Lanka.
Researchers from CPD and IPS will present the findings and recommendations
of a study which explores a value-chain-based solution for Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, where major market
players will implement responsible business practices to support a sustainable
recovery of both countries’ apparel sectors.
Ahead of the publication of the report,
the authors will be discussing their findings on
I m not a beneficiary, I m a disabled person that needs to rely on a benefit. It s a completely different mindset. Chronic fatigue syndrome means activities like engaging in a conversation can cause Zwartjes to pass out from exhaustion.
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Zwartjes has chronic fatigue syndrome and extreme chemical sensitivity. He has been unable to work since he developed these conditions due to lead poisoning in 2001. His extreme chemical sensitivity means substances commonly found in the environment cause his cognitive function to “complete crash , he said. He often wears a respirator to mitigate this. Zwartjes said he had to sell his house in 2002 to keep up with the costs of his medical treatment and appointments. The back seat of his Toyota Sprinter Carib station wagon has been his bed ever since.