Navigation for Nine To Noon

Nine To Noon for Tuesday 14 June 2022

 

 

09:05 The Great Resignation: people quitting out-number job applications

small business, people and service concept - man or bartender serving customer at coffee shop

Photo: 123rf

There are warnings of a "Great Resignation" with staff turnover in many sectors reaching up to 50 per cent. That's according to the annual Salary and Employment Report by Human resources platform MyHR, covering more than 1,250 companies, and 27,000 employees, in New Zealand between 2019 and 2022.  In data also out today, job advertisements  rose to a record high, up 3-percent, in May.  Employment website Seek says this is 15-percent higher than this time last year.  Applications for those jobs fell by 4-percent. There's been a sharp increase in demand for workers in particular in retail, hospitality and community services. So what does this all mean for workers and employers?  Kathryn is joined by MyHR chief executive Jason Ennor and Professor of Human Resource Management at AUT's Department of Management Jarrod Haar.

 

09:25 17 years in foster care, social workers "turned blind eye" to abuse

Elison Mae at Royal Commission into Abuse in Care.

Elison Mae at Royal Commission into Abuse in Care. Photo: Royal Commission of Inquiry

Elison Mae spent 17 years in and out of foster care suffering emotional, physical, sexual and psychological abuse which she says social workers knew about and turned a blind eye. The Royal Commission into Abuse in State care is holding a week long inquiry into abuse within the foster care system, and Ms Mae yesterday spoke for the first time of her experiences. Remarkably she survived that childhood, went on to get a law degree, and worked for Child Youth and Family. She says the system must be fixed,  and she's speaking out because she doesn't want any other child to go through what she did.

09:45 USA correspondent Ron Elving - US Capitol attack committee hearing

Ron covers the January 6 hearings which continue this morning, 10 Republican senators look like they're tentatively on board for modest gun control measures and the price of petrol and diesel continue to spike inflation.

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 09: People gather to watch the hearing of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol on June 09, 2022 in Washington, DC. The bipartisan committee, which has been gathering evidence related to the January 6th attack at the U.S. Capitol for almost a year, will present its findings in a series of televised hearings. On January 6th, 2021, supporters of President Donald Trump attacked the U.S. Capitol Building in an attempt to disrupt a congressional vote to confirm the electoral college win for Joe Biden. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by TASOS KATOPODIS / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

People gather to watch the hearing of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol on June 09, 2022 in Washington, DC. Photo: TASOS KATOPODIS

Ron Elving is Senior Editor and Correspondent on the Washington Desk for NPR News.

 

 

10:05 Let's Get Physical: the history of women's exercise

No caption

Photo: Lindsay May / Supplied

Today exercise is a multi billion-dollar fitness industry, and women account for more than half of all gym memberships, and dominate yoga, pilates and barre studios. But it hasn't always been this way. For much of the twentieth century, sweating was considered unladylike, and physical exercise was discouraged. Women were not allowed to run marathons in case they turned into men, or lesbians, and it was feared that physical exertion could damage a woman's reproductive organs or cause her uterus to fall out. Journalist Danielle Friedman has tracked the fascinating history of women's exercise culture through her book Let's Get Physical and found it was only in the sixties that a few forward-thinking fitness pioneers began to promote exercise for women, and women began to move en masse, setting in motion an exercise revolution.

10:35 Book review: The Premonitions Bureau by Sam Knight

The Premonitions Bureau

Photo: Alen and Unwin NZ

Kiran Dass reviews The Premonitions Bureau by Sam Knight, published by Allen and Unwin

10:45 The Reading

 'My Father's Ears', part six. Written by Karen Goa.

11:05 Business commentator Rebecca Stevenson

Photo:

Rebecca talks to Kathryn about Starbucks and unionisation and whether the coffee chain is a a time capsule of what's going on in America. And consumer groups in 18 European countries have backed a report calling gaming loot boxes "exploitative". Rebecca explains what loot boxes are.
 

11:30 Advice for renters about requirements for warm, healthy homes

Up to 80 percent of faulty indoor electric heaters potentially still on the market.

Photo: 123rf

As we settle into winter, the Citizens Advice Bureau has advice for renters about the requirements for landlords to provide safe, warm and healthy homes. Kathryn speaks to the acting chief executive Andrew Hubbard.

11:45 Financial educator Simran Kaur

Simran Kaur

Simran Kaur Photo: Supplied

Simran Kaur is the co-host of the podcast Girls That Invest. She talks to Kathryn about the volatility in the market, the rise in inflation and living costs, and has advice for how to ask for a raise during these high inflation times. This discussion is of a general nature, and does not constitute financial advice.

 

Music played in this show

Track: Physical 
Artist: Olivia Newton John
Time played: 10:05am 

Track:  My Number 
Artist: Foals
Time played: 10:35am