Hon GRANT ROBERTSON (Minister of Finance): The jobs market is continuing to support the economic recovery. The SEEK NZ Employment Report for November showed that job ads had jumped 5.1 percent—the best monthly gain since May—and is now up 35.4 percent for the year. Compared with pre-COVID levels in November 2019, the latest numbers are 28.9 percent higher. Auckland job ads rose by 8.1 percent as restrictions were eased on retail activity, while Northland jumped 17 percent as the region moved from alert level 3 to alert level 2. The robust jobs market shows that the Government's actions in response to COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic to protect lives and livelihoods has proved to be the best economic approach as well as the best health approach. 