Unions are raising concerns about the Government’s changes to the Holidays Act, particularly regarding the impact that they will have on part-time workers. Secondary school teachers in New Zealand are witnessing an alarming rise in extremism among students, with young men particularly susceptible to misogynistic ideologies promoted by figures like Andrew Tate. The Government has reopened applications for oil and gas exploration ban, with a new faster route for awarding permits.
Union coverage
- CTU, Workers’ First: Holidays Act overhaul: Changes to annual leave, sick pay system
- CTU, Workers’ First: Union blasts Holidays Act changes, business advocates praise clarity
- CTU: Electoral Amendment Bill: Submitters want fewer restrictions, more sausages
- PPTA: ‘Trump boys’ in NZ classrooms: Teachers warn of rising student extremism (paywall)
- PSA: NZ’s Pacific influence threatened by major cuts to the Public Service Fale – Union
- ASMS: Psychiatrist says he will clock 56 hours this week, despite striking for two days
- ASMS: Taranaki doctors warn low pay repels the foreign specialists NZ needs (paywall)
- NZEI: Hundreds of principals to boycott curriculum roadshows
- The forgotten union green ban that defended Bastion Point
Employment
- ACC workers ‘anxious and frustrated’ as question mark hangs over hybrid working (paywall)
- Cash-strapped bus driver offered hours in return for sex, awarded $60,000 in damages
Politics
- Health Minister promises 75,000 more procedures under $65m plan
- Government reopens oil and gas exploration nationwide, Greens decry ‘climate fire’
- Christopher Luxon shrugs off criticism after being ranked 15th best minister by businesses
- Inquiry launched into MP Carl Bates over trust declaration (paywall)
- Public Service rebrand pricetag: $1.3m in less than two years (paywall)
- Controversial Auckland intensification plan passes despite heated debate (paywall)
- ‘Brassed off’ Winston Peters misses Trump dinner due to traffic woes
Te Ao Māori
- ‘Quietly spoken leader with immense mana’ – tributes flow for Sir Tumu Te Heuheu
- Auckland councillors honour Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei leader Pakihana Grant Hawke
- ‘When the Māori economy succeeds, the economy succeeds’: Nicola Willis
Economics
- Half of Kiwis cut back on fruit and vegetables as costs rise
- Former RBNZ economist says new governor Anna Breman a ‘risky’ appointment
- Businesses urge Government to rethink ban on PayWave transaction fees
- GST at 32 percent, pension age of 72 among Treasury solutions to financial crunch