Glad government listens (very occasionally)
News just in from the Ministry of Health regarding the sleepovers case – where the Court of Appeal determined that disability support workers were working when they stayed over in IHC premises, and...
View ArticleRemember when Key wanted to close the wage gap with Aussie – now English is...
John Key’s promise to close the wage gap with Australia was an important policy plank. Yesterday Bill English formally abandoned that policy and used the fact that our wages are 30% lower to try and...
View ArticleDid John Key forget to take advice?
Kiwi families lose another public holiday this weekend as Easter Monday coincides with Anzac Day. This is the second day this year that falls on a weekend and won’t be Mondayised, so Kiwis have been...
View ArticlePositive workplace relations – going, going, gone.
The more I hear from this government, the more I believe that they think unions and workers have little role in the success of a business, and what’s good for business is good for everyone, regardless...
View ArticleLabour’s plan for lifting wages
There’s been a lot of debate and hard thinking in the Labour Party about the current Employment Relations framework and how it could be part of a cohesive whole in building a high wage, high skill,...
View ArticleBon voyage to more whanau in 2012
There’s been a lot of baloney in the media recently about the role (or control) of unions in Labour and a view that by supporting fairness at work means Labour must be anti-employer or anti-business....
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Total Employment Change from 2008 Reveals Imminent Crisis
Increase in unemployment under National The Household Labour Force Survey Survey report of the December 2011 Quarter released last week revealed that our unemployment rate slipped slightly to 6.3%...
View ArticleNot the Kiwi way
Talley’s-AFFCO have told their 750 odd unionised meat workers in its plants in Moerewa, Manawatu, Imlay, Horotiu and Wairoa that they will be indefinitely locked out from Wednesday, unless they agree...
View ArticleFree at last?
This week, National MPs indulged themselves with a bit of union bashing during their support for Tau Henare’s Employment Relations (Secret Relations Secret Ballot for Strikes) Amendment Bil. The worst...
View ArticleCutting pay Nat style #2
Simon Bridges will try to soothe the path of his Employment Relations Amendment bill by saying it’s about fairness and flexibility. Anyone who opposes will be portrayed as unreasonable and unbalanced....
View ArticleEqual pay : What would you do about gender pay discrimination? Labour...
14 Questions for 2014 Virtual Hustings Meeting – Question 4 Equal pay : What would you do about gender pay discrimination? Explanatory Note: From September 10th to 14th 2013 as part of the official...
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