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Written By: Dancr - Date published: 2:00 pm, March 2nd, 2010 - 9 comments
Kate Wilkinson (Minister of Labour) has opened public submissions on a review on personal grievances, with the release of a discussion paper today. Details are here on the Dept of Labour website and submissions close on 31 March.
Written By: Marty G - Date published: 12:32 am, March 2nd, 2010 - 22 comments
The total pay packet fell for Kiwi workers last year and it will get worse in coming years. Aussie wages continue to rise, their unemployment is falling. If Key is serious about catching Australia he needs a full employment policy. Instead, he will keep doing nothing.
Written By: Guest post - Date published: 7:03 am, February 27th, 2010 - 18 comments
We received this guest post about half an hour after John Key announced his cycleway. At the time, the very sensible criticisms it raises were ignored by an enamoured media.
How prescient it looks now, on the anniversary of the Prime Minister’s Jobs Summit.
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 10:30 am, February 16th, 2010 - 52 comments
You know how the world has been through the worst financial crisis in decades? You know how countries like Ireland and Iceland who had made themselves into financial hubs via tax breaks for banks are now deep in the crap with burgeoning debt and unemployment? Why don’t we do what they did?
Written By: Marty G - Date published: 12:10 pm, February 12th, 2010 - 5 comments
Relating to what I wrote yesterday about the Right and much of the media being largely blind to the existence of those of us on low and middle incomes, here’s an interesting piece from the New York Times:
The folks in the upper-income group are not suffering much, if at all, from the profound reversals in …
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 3:02 pm, February 10th, 2010 - 64 comments
Number of jobless Kiwis = 276,000
Number of jobs plans from Key Government = 0
Key can make all the vague references to faster growth and better economic performance that he likes but while the potential and skill of over a quarter of a million Kiwis is being wasted it will never happen. Getting people into work …
Written By: Michael Foxglove - Date published: 2:25 pm, February 4th, 2010 - 28 comments
Unemployment is now 7.3%. The highest since the 90s.
What, you don’t remember that decade? Well, you’re in a for a treat.
Govt says population rise behind high unemployment
Social Development Minister Paula Bennett pointed to an increase of 14,500 people in the working age population.
“There are simply more people joining the workforce, which is outstripping job growth,” …
Written By: IrishBill - Date published: 9:30 am, July 1st, 2009 - 23 comments
I see John Key is promising new ideas to stop job-losses:
We’ve got an economic strategy … and I intend over the next few weeks to spell out my thinking in that area
It strikes me as another one of his vague PR-driven promises.
Like the promise he made in March about the initiatives that never eventuated, …
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