{"id":208847,"date":"2025-06-23T23:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T23:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/208847\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T23:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T23:03:09","slug":"employment-confidence-levels-remain-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/208847\/","title":{"rendered":"Employment confidence levels remain low"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"BuNdWTbVbBUOs\" style=\"display:none\">However, he said the results were encouraging because they suggested the rise in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;rct=j&amp;opi=89978449&amp;url=https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/unemployment\/&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjLt6r5yYiOAxWocGwGHWa9JgoQFnoECBcQAQ&amp;usg=AOvVaw3uH6axCc6KPXqCuEFGlRhU\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;rct=j&amp;opi=89978449&amp;url=https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/unemployment\/&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjLt6r5yYiOAxWocGwGHWa9JgoQFnoECBcQAQ&amp;usg=AOvVaw3uH6axCc6KPXqCuEFGlRhU\">unemployment rate <\/a>over the past couple of years may be peaking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BuNdWTbVbBUOs\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThat said, people were more pessimistic this quarter about an improvement in job prospects in the year ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"BuNdWTbVbBUOs\" style=\"display:none\">The survey results were mixed across regions.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<a class=\"ad__link\" data-test-ui=\"ad__link\" href=\"https:\/\/advertising.nzme.co.nz\/\" data-ad-env=\"both\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Advertise with NZME.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"BuNdWTbVbBUOs\" style=\"display:none\">Southland saw the biggest improvement for the quarter and was the most confident region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BuNdWTbVbBUOs\" style=\"display:none\">However, other dairying-intensive regions, such as Waikato and Taranaki, fared poorly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BuNdWTbVbBUOs\" style=\"display:none\">Among the main centres, Auckland saw a solid lift in confidence, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/wellington\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/wellington\/\">Wellington<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/christchurch\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/christchurch\/\">Christchurch<\/a> were down slightly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BuNdWTbVbBUOs\" style=\"display:none\">McDermott Miller research director Imogen Rendall said private sector employees were less confident than those in the public sector.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BuNdWTbVbBUOs\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cConfidence among employees working in the private sector has further eroded this quarter with a drop of 2.9 points down to 85.0, while public sector employees\u2019 confidence has increased 7 points up to 96.2,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BuNdWTbVbBUOs\" style=\"display:none\">-RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"However, he said the results were encouraging because they suggested the rise in the unemployment rate over the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3092],"tags":[51,24891,3374,897,29528,61802,62032,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-208847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-confidence","10":"tag-employment","11":"tag-jobs","12":"tag-levels","13":"tag-low","14":"tag-remain","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}