Covid 19

News from the business sector, including a market report. Video, Audio

Courier drivers may be able to argue for better pay, holiday and sick leave and generally better working conditions following a ruling by the Employment Court on Thursday.

The court has found an… Audio

If level 2 gets the green light, hairdressers, restaurants, domestic travel, gyms, home cleaners and more are all go.

The Reserve Bank estimates the four-and-a-half-week lockdown under level 4 cost… Video, Audio

New Zealand has been promised a "safer version of normal" under Level Two - as the Prime Minister signals what life might look like when restrictions relax.

The country is on track to drop out of… Audio

Legal experts have raised questions about the legality of the lock down in New Zealand. Waikato University Professor of Law Al Gillespie joins the discussion. Audio

Life under alert level 2 means a raft of new regulations for the hospitality sector to operate under. Hospitality NZ chief executive Julie White talks about how that will impact the industry. Audio

The Prime Minister has unveiled guidelines for life at alert level 2. We go through what has been stipulated with RNZ's political editor Jane Patterson. Audio

We speak to Perry Rush, the President of the New Zealand Principals Federation. Audio

We speak to Kirk Hope, the Chief Executive of Business New Zealand. Audio

Tech commentator Paul Matthews looks at the announcement by Microsoft that it'll open a new "datacentre region" in New Zealand: how big is its cloud offering and what difference does storing data… Audio

UK correspondent Hugo Gye joins Kathryn to talk about the expectations being set by Prime Minister Boris Johnson ahead of a weekend announcement about lifting lockdown restrictions. Why is the UK one… Audio

Some disability carers left their families and moved into the bubble of their clients - how is the sector coping? Plus, harrowing stories from Kiwis with other health problems during covid-19. Audio

New Zealand First has once again opted not to name any donations from the mysterious foundation bankrolling the party on its electoral return.

But an electoral law expert says for the first time the… Audio

An Australian journalist says the federal government is treating the travel bubble with less urgency than New Zealand.

The Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, yesterday said that trans-Tasman… Audio

A Hawke's Bay farmer says the government's latest drought relief package - a $500,000 fund for advisory services - is a 'drop in the ocean' and will not go far to alleviating struggling farmers'… Audio

A new economic report is forecasting that three times as many jobs could be lost in central Auckland by next March than during the Global Financial Crisis, with GDP also expected to take a huge hit.

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The trauma of the Covid-19 lockdown on those who had nothing to do with the disease was laid bare for MPs on Wednesday.

The Epidemic Response Committee has been hearing about experiences of death -… Audio

There is growing support for a petition to ban all freedom camping, nation-wide, for non-residents.

The woman behind the idea wants the country to re-asses the parameters around freedom camping in… Audio