New Zealand Labor Shortage After Quake Stirs Wage Worries
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Design engineer Stephanie Thompson quit her job in Australia’s mining industry and moved with her husband to New Zealand to help rebuild the earthquake-damaged city of Christchurch.
“Work isn’t that great back home anymore and we’ve got work here,” said Thompson, 30, who moved from Perth in June to design waste-water systems on a six-month contract that she’s extended for a year. In Perth, “it’s all money and mining. We came here to do something more meaningful.”