Midday Report for Friday 3 April 2020

12:44 PM.There are growing calls for the government to provide an amnesty on rent while the country is under alert level 4.

ActionStation delivered a petition with thousands of signatures to Green Party… Read more Audio

12:42 PM.A bus drivers' union is slamming some operators as opportunistic employers who'll do anything at the cost of their workers.

First Union says its membership includes about 100 drivers who work for… Read more Audio

12:35 PM.As we have heard on RNZ over the last few days, the pork industry has been getting increasingly concerned about the growing number of surplus pigs on farms that can't be sent to independent butchers… Read more Audio

12:28 PM.New Zealand Cricket's chief executive, David White, has just confirmed the Black Caps' upcoming tours are in serious doubt, while the White Ferns tour to Sri Lanka is postponed.

Clay Wilson has the… Read more Audio

12:20 PM.The country's biggest fuel retailer, Z Energy, is the latest company to revise earnings and save money as it grapples with tough trading conditions.

RNZ's Business Editor, Gyles Beckford, has the… Read more Audio

12:18 PM.There's been a steady rise in the number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 among Maori, with the latest figure now at 56.

Māori communities across the country are bracing themselves, waiting for that… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.Concerns have been raised about the text-tracking system that police are using to monitor the location of people during the lockdown.

More than 5-thousand people who have recently returned to the… Read more Audio

12:12 PM.The casino operator Sky City is making 200 staff redundant due to Covid-19.

The company says it's losing $90 million a month in revenue during the lockdown, and without the government wage subsidies… Read more Audio