The Government has announced further changes to the personal grievance regime that will make it even tougher for workers, and changes to the Marsden Fund investment plan to stop funding for humanities and social sciences research. Workers at Kinleith mill are worried that they will lose even more jobs. A new report shows that Corrections have enabled a culture of sexual harassment and assaults. In climate news, outgoing commissioner Rod Carr is recommending radical reform of the ETS and encouraging his successor to continue speaking out on the consequences of climate policies.
Union coverage
- CTU: Government to impose further restrictions on personal grievances
- FIRST: Death threats made to stop migrants reporting trafficking – union
- FIRST, E tū: Mill workers fear further job losses
- NZNO: Nurses strike at Wairarapa Hospital
Employment
- Salary cap on unjustified dismissal claims ‘dangerous’: Lecturer
- Labour market under further pressure as NZers head overseas
- Ministry of Education removes just a portion of jobs it intended to cull
- More applying for the military than Defence can afford
- Almost a quarter of beneficiaries being paid incorrectly – report
Politics
- Government’s Marsden Fund cuts: All humanities, social sciences research funding slashed
- Corrections’ culture enabled sexual harassment and assaults, scathing review finds
- Corrections’ lack of sexual harassment reporting ‘problematic’
- Government won’t buy overseas carbon credits to meet targets, Todd McClay says
- Emissions Trading Scheme ‘will fail’ without radical reform – Rod Carr
- Rod Carr advises successor to keep spelling out consequences of climate policies
- Ministry of Disabled People fronts to MPs about funding challenges
Te Ao Māori
Economics
- Government prepares to tighten competition rules, overhaul ComCom
- Boring housing data good news for first-home buyers