John Key
20 July, 2009
Job Summit
Opening Remarks from the Prime Minister
Closing Remarks from the Prime Minister
Message from the Conference Chair
Attendees (at 03 March 2009)
Contact Us
Regional Employment Summits - schedule
9 March. On Monday, March 9, the Cabinet agreed that ideas from the Jobs Summit would be allocated to the following Ministers to lead further investigation: click for list (pdf)
12 March. This paper was considered at the March 9 Cabinet meeting, which allocated ideas from the Job Summit to particular Ministers to lead further investigation. Note: the outcome of the Cabinet meeting was to allocate the ideas in way outlined in the list above. Click here for the Cabinet paper.
30 March. This paper was considered at the March 30 Cabinet meeting, which allocated the next tranche of ideas from the Job Summit to particular Ministers to lead further investigation. Note: the outcome of the Cabinet meeting was to allocate the ideas in way outlined in the list above. Click here for the Cabinet paper.
Outcomes
23 June - Progress on the top 20
Government moves to keep industry trainees in training - Minister for Education Anne Tolley
Job Support Scheme expanded - Prime Minister John Key
Government, Mayors to work together on jobs - Minister Paula Bennett
Government looks at bond programme options - Finance Minister Bill English
Government looks at bond programme options - Finance Minister Bill English
PM pledges $50 million in Budget for cycleway - Prime Minister John Key
Job Summit output a boost for young innovators - Hon Dr Wayne Mapp
Government considers local body ‘bond bank' - Finance Minister Bill English
Launch of ‘Maori in Industry and Trades training' - Hon Dr Pita Sharples
PM announces first Cycleway projects - Prime Minister John Key
Business Migrant Scheme Revamped - Hon Gerry Brownlee, Hon Dr Jonathan Coleman
Cutting red tape to create a better, smarter economy - Hon Bill English, Hon Rodney Hide
Workstream Results (Powerpoint slides)
1. Workstream 1 - Core Workplace & Employment Issues
2. Workstream 2 - Workers - Skills & Transition
3. Workstream 3 - Local & Regional Govt
Workstream 3 - Maori Economy
4. Workstream 4 - Helping Firms Survive
5. Workstream 5 - Business Investment
6. Workstream 6 - Firm Funding
Key presentations
Speech by John Whitehead
Powerpoint slides for John Whitehead speech
Powerpoint slides for Alan Bollard speech
Mark Weldon: Job Summit Summary of Initiatives (Powerpoint)
Job Summit - Top Twenty
Core Workplace and Employment Issues
1. Retain and Upskill - the nine day fortnight
Retain jobs by reducing wage costs while firms earnings are down. Retain jobs short and long term by upskilling workers. Possible focus on a nine day fortnight or maximum 6 week block release.
2. Intra-national migration achieved
Creation of a seasonal work marketplace that will remove barriers (information, infrastructure, qualifications/skills) between employers and seasonal workers.
Skills and Transition
3. Keeping people in education and creating jobs through education and training
Expand group training programmes, review current apprenticeships models with a view to sustaining and expanding levels of training and introduce a training requirement as part of government procurement processes. Support summer employment for students, facilitating retraining and promoting the importance and value of education.
Remove barriers and increase enablers/incentives to ensure that the education and training system is well-placed to meet current needs and opportunities including a specific focus on Maori/Pasifika people.
4. Improve matching of supply and demand for training
Improve identification and matching of clearly identifiable job opportunities in the short and medium term by industry groups to direct future education and training priorities.
5. Redundancy and transition support programme
Improve support for people about to be made redundant or who are unemployed to help them transition to new work opportunities and training including:
-Particular focus on those most vulnerable
-Income assistance
-Collaboration
-Enhanced industry partnerships
-Auditing, integrating and streamlining
-Improving information and access to services
Maori Economy, Local and Regional Government
6. Enhanced utilisation of iwi assets
Creating new employment in the primary production sector by bringing Maori land and water based assets into higher value export focused productive use. This may involve accessing existing business support, legislative/regulatory review and active facilitation of intra-Maori partnerships.
Investing in projects that support Maori kinship -based infrastructure, including iwi-led housing projects, innovative approaches to existing state housing stock, and marae development.
7. Government systems
Ensure that government services to Maori deliver effective results.
8. Urgently develop and implement new sources of bond funding
Aggregate local government debt to gain access to debt funding at lower than current interest rates. Also, prioritise New Zealand investment plan across central/local government, that ensures a job creation focus, incentives for expenditure, quality spend that best positions New Zealand for medium to long term and avoids competition for capacity and capability.
9. Reduce regulatory compliance costs and impediments
Adopt a permissive approach to increase the range of permitted activities in e.g. building and housing, food safety. Enable local government to determine appropriate level of consultation. Seek a moratorium on drinking water and air quality standards. Improve practice in council processing of regulatory consents.
Helping firms survive
10. Big projects fast track
Establish a taskforce(s) to report directly to a relevant minister to anticipate and actively manage approval and regulatory processes for major and/or complex processes.
11. Rule-making freeze
Cabinet directive issued to government agencies/regulators to stop all rule and regulation making or extension, unless specifically approved by the minister. Reduce all enforcement activity to focus on minimum acceptable standards (rather than ‘nice to haves') and the overall immediate interest for New Zealand.
12. Boosting tourist traffic co-fund
Establish a government/private co-funded $60 million fund to support initiatives to increase visitor numbers targeting 1% global market share, through short and long haul promotional activity, domestic tourism promotion and targeted infrastructure development.
Business Investment
13. Accelerate energy, environmental and water initiatives for employment and productivity improvements
14. Streamline regulatory approval processes for major projects
Accelerate transmission grid investment by increasing threshold for Electricity Commission consideration of electricity projects to $50 million. Allow longer wheel-based trucks and heavier loading. Establish taskforces reporting to a minister for vetting major infrastructure investment proposals and ensuring regulatory processes are quickly and consistently completed.
15. Access to working capital delivered via an extension of the Export Credit Office
Extend the Export Credit Office to also apply to domestic firms that need cash flow funding for completion of confirmed contract orders.
16. Level the playing field to NZ firms for local and central government procurement
Revise procurement guidelines to ensure they do not bias against local providers by stipulating a specified firm size or track record.
Firm Funding
17. Super-charged debt market
Possibilities include streamlining reporting and disclosure requirements, long term bond issues, involvement by a wider range of organisations such as local government.
18. Government/bank equity investment fund
Develop an equity growth fund to allow large institutional investors access to quality investments in the SME sector that are currently unavailable to them.
19. Commitment by banks to providing capital to NZ firms
Banks and Government co-fund partnership for preferred equity, financed by bank and government equity, leveraged with debt funding.
20. Banks to significantly invest in financial literacy
Investing in educational initiatives to improve the financial literacy of their customers with a focus on SME businesses.
Background Documents
- Labour Market (Dept of Labour)
- Labour Market (Statistics NZ)
- Building and construction
- Education
- Retail trade
- Hospitality
- Seasonal Employment and Primary Industries
- Employment data
- Past recessions
Closing Remarks from the Prime Minister - 27 February
You have put a tremendous amount of time and thought into the day's discussions.
As a result, there have been ideas galore generated by groups, subgroups and, in many cases, sub-subgroups of people talking to each other over a cup of coffee.
To paraphrase what Alan Bollard said this morning, if you laid all the ideas discussed today end to end, they would reach to the Sun and halfway back again.
Mark and the chairs have just presented on the 20 or so proposals that the Summit has collectively identified as amongst the most promising ideas.
You all know that there are at least a couple of dozen quality ideas lying behind those.
If anyone doubted that this process would generate practical, concrete ideas, they were sorely mistaken.
That's what this day has been about; that's why we had this Summit.
As Alan Bollard and John Whitehead made clear this morning, we are in a very serious global recession which is going to get worse before it gets better. [read more]
Message from the Conference Chair
Mark Weldon, Chief Executive, New Zealand Exchange Ltd (NZX)
There's a less obvious reason why this is termed a "summit". It's because the real graft will be done before anyone gets there: accessing, understanding and interpreting a raft of data, drawing on ideas and advice, testing potential solutions. Then when we reach the summit we can share and challenge those ideas, developing the best ones into workable recommendations for government action.
These are extraordinary times that demand breaking out of the old way of developing, consulting on and implementing policy. Anyone who wants to feed their ideas and responses into that process is welcome to do so via summitcoordinator@parliament.govt.nz .
Collective, cohesive effort and commitment to good outcomes will be what propels New Zealand out of the current crisis better, faster and stronger than our peers and neighbours.
Summit attendees - 03 March 2009
Uluomatootua S. Aiono John Albertson John Allen Dave Anderson Sir John Anderson, KBE Jeremy Baker David Baldwin John Banks, QSO John Barnett Michael Barnett Derek Baxter Steve Bayliss Paul Bayly Larry Bilodeau Andrew Blair Brian Blake Christopher Blake Marko Bogoievski Alan Bollard (S) John Bongard (C) Wayne Boyd (C) Dean Bracewell Don Braid Sheridan Broadbent Len Brown Kevin Bryant Mark Cairns Stephen Cairns Nick Calavrias Rob Cameron (C) Rod Carr (SGL) Tony Carter Andrew Casidy Simon Challies Sharon Clair Alan Clarke Leith Comer Peter Conway (SGL) Keith Cooper Tim Cossar Liz Coutts Russell Creedy (SGL) Hamish Crooks Mike Daniell Jim Delegat Whaimutu Dewes Jane Diplock, AO Mark Donaldson Rod Drury (SGL) Dave Eastlake Don Elder Bruce Emson Conor English Rick Fala (SGL) Tony Falkenstein Dave Faulkner John Fellet Andrew Ferrier Charles Finny Rob Fisher (SGL) Mark Fitzgerald Gary Foot John Forbes Mark Franklin George Frazis Rob Fyfe (C) Fiona Gavriel (SGL) Ross George Tim Gibson Andrew Grant (S) Arthur Grimes Temuera Hall (SGL) Andrew Hamilton Trevor Hanson Robin Hapi Andrew Harmos (SGL) Laila Harré Doug Heffernan Paul Hemborrow Erima Henare Brian Heron, MNZM Michael Hill John Hirst Graham Hodges Peter Hughes Simon Hull Murray Jack Willie Jackson Rob Jager Benedikte Jensen Meagan Joe Michael Jones Neville Jordan Ruma Karaitiana Peter Kean Helen Kelly (C) Roger Kerr Dame Georgina Kirby, DBE, QSO (SGL) Sam Knowles Sue Lewis-O'Halloran Jonathan Ling Andrew Little (SGL) Ngatata Love (C) Simon MacKenzie Lt Gen Jerry Mateparae, ONZM Ken Matthews David May June McCabe | David McConnell Stuart McCutcheon Peter McKinley Bruce McLachlan Rob McLeod Lesley McTurk Chris Meade John Meeuwsen Jeremy Moon (SGL) Ian Morrice (SGL) Nigel Morrison Simon Moutter (SGL) Greg Muir (SGL) Mavis Mullins Ian Narev (SGL) Craig Norgate Phil O’Reilly Dave O'Connell Chris Olsen Adrian Orr Rangimariae Parata-Takurua David Patterson Selwyn Pellet Charles Pink David Pralong Kerry Prendergast Cathy Quinn Warwick Quinn John Rae Caren Rangi Richard Reid Paul Reynolds Sharn Riggs Kevin Rimmington Major Campbell Roberts Bruce Robertson Dianne Robertson (SGL) Geoff Ross (SGL) Bob Russell John Ryall Damian Sainsbury Mike Shaw Sue Sheldon John Shewan (C) Peter Silcock Penny Simmonds (SGL) David Skilling (SGL) Andrew Smith Peter Smith Garry Smith David Smol Martin Snedden Mark Solomon Scott St John Russell Stanners Judith Stanway Ken Stevens Craig Stobo Wally Stone (SGL) Patrick Strange Campbell Stuart Sam Stubbs Peter Talley John Tamihere Richard Taylor Brendan Taylor Jacqui Te Kani Peter Tennent Alasdair Thompson Andrew Thorburn Stephen Tindall (C) Matt Todd Peter Townsend Stuart Trundle Elizabeth Valentine Henry Van der Heyden, DCNZM (SGL) Richard Wagstaff Grant Webster Rosalie Webster Mark Weldon (Summit Chair) Maarten Wevers John Whitehead (S) Wendi Wicks Dale Williams Joan Withers Lawrence Yule Hon John Key Hon Bill English Hon Gerry Brownlee Hon Simon Power Hon Anne Tolley Hon David Carter Hon Steven Joyce Hon Georgina te Heuheu Hon Paula Bennett Hon Jonathan Coleman Hon Kate Wilkinson Hon Rodney Hide Hon Pita Sharples Hon Tariana Turia Hon Peter Dunne |
Contact: People with questions about the Job Summit, or ideas to contribute, should email summitcoordinator@parliament.govt.nz
