A new employment survey shows that labour market pessimism has deepened as workers worry about holding to their job, the difficulty in finding jobs, and slowing wage growth. Nurses working in primary care will get an 8 percent pay increase this year, but it still leaves them lagging behind their colleagues working in hospitals. A report from the United Nations has questioned the fairness of GST in Aotearoa.
Union coverage
- CTU: UN report questions fairness of GST in NZ
- CTU: The Kiwis working past the age of 90
- NZNO: Primary care nurses to get pay increase
- ASMS: Outsourcing being used to pretend hospital wait times are being fixed – doctor
- E tū: NZME billionaire coup: Union says question it asked Jim Grenon was a simple one
Employment
- Labour market optimism sinks down to post-Covid lows
- ‘Terrible surprise’: 33 Air New Zealand employees fighting company’s Covid policy
Politics
- ‘Horrific’: Luxon lashes Health NZ over mistaken identity
- Christopher Luxon reveals Resource Management Act reform
- RMA overhaul: Government seeks common ground with opposition
- Oranga Tamariki grievous privacy breaches must not ‘continue under our watch’ – minister
- India trade talks: Peters pours cold water on immigration changes
- Ōhāriu, Mana, Ōtaki proposed to be scrapped for two new electorates
- Wellington council performance ‘markedly better’ than we think, says observer
Te Ao Māori
Economics
- Stuff and Trade Me in talks, report claims
- GST debt creating ‘zombie companies’, tax expert says
- Work set to begin on $227 million Northland solar farm
- Building product price rises likely to push up new home costs
- Comcom considers deregulating fees for calls and texts between networks