A key player in the Government’s redundancy safety net is threatening to pull support if there aren’t tax cuts for business.
Business New Zealand worked with unions and the Government to design the income insurance scheme, but their support comes with big caveats.
At some point BusinessNZ chief executive Kirk Hope was going to tell the Government to take a running jump for this outrageous sop to the PSA!
Barely 14% of the workforce is unionised, the Public sector unions are a huge part of that and with that size comes political dominance of the union movement. The sop to the PSA for the sudden expansion of the union movement via the Fair Pay Agreements is this ridiculous holiday plan for Wellington’s Managerial Professional Class.
This gold plated welfare for public servants to have taxpayer funded holidays as they flit from Government Department to Government Department is such a scam that it must be difficult for Cabinet Ministers not to laugh when they attempt to justify it.
If Grant has fucking $3.5billion to sink into 6month sojourns for the Managerial Professional Class (or those wanting an extra 6months of maternity leave) PLUS a billion on consultants each year, then he has money to house the 27 000 waiting on emergency housing wait lists, the 150 000 kids in severe poverty and the generations locked out of home ownership!
I don’t want to hear that we can’t spend more on mental health or education when we are seriously considering funding public service holiday schemes!
FFS!
Someone has to tell Grant that he’s dreaming!
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Is this for real? I need more details
This whole scheme is so people who get laid off or cannot work because they get cancer, are able to maintain their standard of living and not end up in their houses.
For too long, business owners and employees have raked it in, living a champagne lifestyle, while the sick and disabled are left to live in their own filth.
This even things up a bit.
TBH, I wonder if ACC would have been able to get through in this environment, where it is all about screwing over people for a quick buck.
Or they could increase ACC and add in Cancer and other illnesses….. but then you couldn’t employ a massive consultancy workforce to set it up costing billions and be as inefficient as possible and take years to implement.
This sounds like a good idea. Two people with similar problems but caused by nature the order buy an accident finish up with vastly different outcomes. One could lose everything and 1 will be able to make a change in lifestyle but keep up with the field .
I guess when you are part of the Beltway then it is the beltway that is important not what us happening on Fenton Street for example.
I really want to saddle NZ employers and employees with another tax, so that poor employers don’t have to pay out their workers when they remove them to hire cheaper ones! (Sarcasm)
Make the good workforces pay for the growing amount of bad workforces operating in NZ who seem to hire and fire, willy nilly, that other countries have a simple compulsory redundancy system that makes the company pay out when they make people redundant not some complex scheme that creates headaches for everyone else!
What an interesting article!
I guess Grant is worried he might be unemployed soon?
They’re living better than me.
‘blackmail’ is such an ugly word