NZEI is taking the Government to court over recent changes to funding for resource teachers. PPTA has rejected a pay offer of 1 percent a year for three years, one of the lowest offers ever made to secondary teachers. The PSA is looking to take legal action against the MBIE super-ministry over its new work-from-home policy, after mediation failed to resolve the dispute. The union for career firefighters, NZPFU, has rejected Fire and Emergency New Zealand’s latest pay offer of a 5.1 percent pay increase over the next three years.
Union coverage
- NZEI: NZ’s largest teachers’ union taking Government to court over resource teacher cuts
- PPTA: Secondary teachers union rejects one of lowest pay offers ever
- PFU: Professional firefighters’ union members reject pay offer of 5.1% over three years
- PSA: Business ministry ‘breaches contracts’ in work-from-home crackdown
- PSA: Ministry for Culture and Heritage confirms 80 percent cut in senior historian roles
Employment
- Job advertisements fall for a second month
- Despite ongoing ‘cuts’, the public service isn’t really smaller
- Calendar Girls strip clubs forced to take down posts about women involved in employment dispute
Politics
- Christopher Luxon defends voting changes after Judith Collins raises problems
- Funding to councils to be throttled for using too many road cones
- Government to halt building code changes for three years (paywall)
- Government to make it easier for abuse victims to leave with their pets (paywall)
Te Ao Māori
- Te Pāti Māori announces Ikaroa-Rāwhiti candidate
- Te Pāti Māori, Greens outraged at ‘marginalising’ passport changes
- Tāmaki Makaurau candidate Peeni Henare says government playing ‘silly games’
Economics
- Government looks to allow more overseas materials in bid to bring down building costs
- Economic optimism among farmers at record high
- ‘Brought to its knees’: Why NZ can’t shake the recession
- What you need to know about a 150,000-customer banking class action