The PSA has called on Health NZ to conduct an urgent review after a payroll failure temporarily left thousands of Waikato Hospital health workers without pay. E tū is claiming that restraint of trade clauses are increasingly being used to stop journalists from moving between media outlets. The Prime Minister is under increasing pressure to step down, following increasingly bad poll results. Kiwis may be paying about $3 a litre for 91 octane petrol and $2.50 a litre for diesel in the coming days.
Union coverage
- CTU: Bay of Plenty union members protest in Tauranga over women’s pay equity claims
- PSA: Worker ‘distraught’ as thousands of healthcare staff temporarily left without pay
- E tū: Where’s Tova? How restraint clauses are reshaping the media (paywall)
Employment
- Police ramp up recruitment efforts in Auckland as drain to Australia slows
- Health NZ says petrol vouchers helping lower MRI waiting list in Greater Wellington
- Fire service ordered to pay former employee $13,000 after superannuation mix-up ends in resignation
Politics
- Christopher Luxon faces crunch week as Iran crisis continues (paywall)
- PM Christopher Luxon facing a ‘last straw scenario’ – commentators
- Landmark case could force rewrite of emissions strategy
- Ninth wave of Covid-19 suggests wane in immunity, expert says everyone must ‘act to reduce impact’
- Fisheries Minister Shane Jones blasts Christchurch City Council’s ocean sewage plan
- Wellington climate budget targeted in bid to lower rates rise (paywall)
- Former MP Jackie Blue quits National to join Opportunity party
- NZ spy chief’s warning: Terror investigation list ‘looks like a year 13 boys’ school’ (paywall)
Te Ao Māori
- Move-on orders ‘shift the problem’ as advocates warn of harm to those already struggling
- Moriori accuses Crown of not being neutral on issues with Ngāti Mutunga over Chatham Islands
Economics
- Brace for 91 at $3 a litre, diesel at $2.50 (paywall)
- Supermarket merger appeal provides legal food for thought (paywall)
- Decade mistakenly in a cash fund: ‘Why didn’t the bank contact me?’
- The businesses failing most frequently and what can you do to avoid joining them
Opinion
- Time to recognise the part marae play in keeping communities safe (paywall)
- How a blue-chip corporate-world leader fell below investment grade (paywall)
- Finding a better way to overhaul regional councils (paywall)
- Nicola Willis and Barbara Edmond clash over inflation vs jobs focus for RBNZ (paywall)