The MP for Tāmaki Makaurau Takutai Tarsh Kemp has died at the age of 50, following a diagnosis of kidney disease. A bill that reintroduces the right of employers to penalise workers for “partial strikes” ‒ such as working to rule or refusing extra duties ‒ passed into law last night. Teacher aides and other school support staff belonging to NZEI have rejected a deal that offers them less than half the pay rise they are seeking.
Union coverage
- CTU: Employers once more able to penalise workers for refusing extra duties
- NZEI: School support staff reject Ministry of Education pay offer
Politics
- Te Pāti Māori MP Takutai Tarsh Kemp dies
- Parliament flags fly at half mast, as Te Pāti Maori MP Tarsh Kemp dies (paywall)
- NZ pulls out of global coalition for phasing out fossil fuels
- Seymour’s red-tape bill under fire from disability ministry (paywall)
- Luxon departs NATO summit after meeting with Ukraine’s Zelensky
- New law to give victims final say over sex offenders’ name suppressions
- Legislation to improve independent monitoring of Oranga Tamariki passes third reading
- Winston Peters apologises for calling Te Pāti Māori MP Tākuta Ferris a ‘dickhead’ in the House
- Mayors, residents react to talk of scrapping regional councils
- Building a waste-to-energy plant near a dairy factory ‘lunacy’, hearing told (paywall)
Te Ao Māori
Economics
- ‘Slow but sure’ economic rise in most of Pacific – World Bank
- US stock market nears all-time record in stunning turnaround
- Kiwi software company Xero to buy US payments platform for $4.1b
- Kiwibank offers new lending programme for start ups
- Banks warn lending disclosure regulations threaten financial system