Yes and it's expensive and futile. The current unemployment rate in NZ is about 4%. You can't punish people into employment when economists regard a 5% unemployment rate as "full employment."

I saw a post that said there's 1200 people on the job seekers benefit in Coromandel and 75 jobs advertised.

If anthing needs to deflate, it's not wages or jobs, it's rents & house prices.