{"id":9210,"date":"2025-06-23T23:13:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T23:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/9210\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T23:13:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T23:13:12","slug":"employment-confidence-levels-remain-low-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/9210\/","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=\"nofollow 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\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/wellington\/\">Wellington<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/christchurch\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow 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":3,"featured_media":9211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[64,10282,263,420,10283,10285,10284,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-9210","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-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114735218914840396","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}