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Gisborne Employment Summit Follow-up questionnaire
This questionnaire serves as an initial follow up to the Gisborne Job Summit held in April 2009. The aim of the questionnaire is to guage from invitees, the key issues facing their business in the near future. The Gisborne Job Summit organisers would greatly appreciate your input in answering the following questions. It will only take four minutes to complete.
1) Has the current New Zealand ‘Economic Recession' had any impact on your business?:	Yes No
2) What have been the key issues facing your business over the last 2 months?
Issue 1:
Issue 2:
Issue 3:
3) Have you taken on any paid staff either part-time or full-time since the Job Summit was held?:	Yes No
4) Do you plan to take on new staff either part-time or full-time in the next three months?:	Yes No
Note – Work and Income offer a free recruitment service and other products and services to assist. Please phone 0800 778 008 for details.
5) Has your business had to make any staff redundancies
over the last 2 months? :	Yes No
Over the last 6 months?:	Yes No
6) As an alternative to reducing staff numbers, many companies are looking at different ways of working. Has your business considered the following different options for staff?
Flexible working arrangements:	Yes No
Negotiating a reduction in hours:	Yes No
Varying an employment agreement:	Yes No
Job Support Scheme:	Yes No
7) Has your business taken advantage of any of the recent government assistance packages mentioned below?
GST threshold changes:
Provisional tax changes:
Employer PAYE changes:
Simplified rules for deducting legal expenditure:
90 day Trial Period:
8) The organisers of the Gisborne Employment Summit are looking to hold a follow up session.
Would you be interested in attending?:	Yes No
When you have finished please click on the submit button below.

Gisborne Employment Summit

The Gisborne Chamber of Commerce, Gisborne District Council, the Employers and Manufacturers Association and the Ministry of Social Development, hosted an Employment Summit on Friday, 24th April 2009 at the Poverty Bay Golf Club. It follows Prime Minister John Key's jobs summit in February.

Key speakers at the summit included Dr Ganesh Nana - Senior Economist for BERL, Anne Tolley MP for Gisborne, James Palmer Director Strategy Development MAF Policy Wellington, as well as presentations from local industry leaders. Speakers presented the impacts of the recession and the challenges and opportunities moving forward.

The summit was well attended by approximately 70 people. Also attending were the Mayor of Gisborne, Mr Meng Foon as well as electorate MP Anne Tolley and the Labour MP Parekura Horomia. Labour List MP Moana Mackey also attended.

To view a summary of the summit as well as the various presentations, please click on the following selections:

Gisborne Employment Summit - Summary

Dr Ganesh Nana - Senior Economist for BERL

James Palmer Director Strategy Development MAF Policy

Tourism Eastland

Te Puni Kokiri

The Heart of Gisborne Presentation

Wines of Gisborne

It is anticipated that the meeting will reconvene in the next month or so to monitor progress. For further information please contact