employment

1. Ask each employee which half-day in their work week they would like to work from home. Assign each person their designated Work from Home day (half-day). As you get more comfortable with telecommuting, expand the half-day to a full day or more than one. Flexibility is one of the best rewards and ‘thank yous’ you can give your team!
2. If some folks on your team don’t want to work from home, let them shift their working hours to suit their schedule. You can do this with everyone, as long as phones and other critical coverage issues are handled in advance.

Association President Tagaloa Eddie Wilson made reference to unfarmed family-owned lands and new markets opening up for produce export to countries like Australia, New Zealand and Thailand.

“We cannot exactly employ them all, those 700 jobless people. But we can assure you with our collaboration and their commitment through working our lands, they can become millionaires in two years tops,” he said.

Tagaloa says the decline in employment will take a toll on Samoa’s wealth but the solution is as simple as growing taro, yams, or vegetables in our backyards.

Only 22 percent of youth in Samoa are employed, which means they are economically active and contribute to the economy. For example working for a government of private business to earn money and pay taxes.

The figures for the December 2015 quarter, released by Statistics New Zealand today, show the unemployment rate for Pacific people dropped over 2015 to 9.7 per cent, from 11.4 per cent a year earlier.

This is the lowest rate since December 2008, when the figure was 7.7 per cent.

The number of Pacific people in employment also increased over 2015 by 14,500 to 130,700. This is a 12.5 per cent increase and represents the highest number of Pacific people employed.