When Treasury is leaking, you know you have problems…
Newshub has obtained a leaked Cabinet paper about the Coalition Government’s plans to repeal Fair Pay Agreements.
It reveals the move would disproportionately impact women, Māori and Pasifika and young people and shows the Workplace Relations Minister is at odds with official advice.
The day Fair Pay Agreements were passed was a big day for workers, and scrapping the deals – dubbed FPAs – was a big campaign promise for National.
They’ll now be gone by Christmas as part of the coalition’s 100-day plan.
“It’s something that we opposed in Opposition as did the other parties in the coalition as well and it’s something we want to push on and actually get repealed,” said Prime Minister Christopher Luxon.
But there’s been a major leak about those plans. Newshub has obtained a Cabinet paper and advice from Treasury.
The two papers show the Workplace Relations Minister – Brooke van Velden – is ignoring official advice.
Treasury told the minister that women, young people, Māori and Pasifika people could have disproportionately benefited from FPAs.
…Brooke is ignoring Treasury advice that repealing the Fair Pay Agreements will be damaging to the most vulnerable workers, that is a glimpse of just how ideologically right wing ACT really are!
When the Treasury Nazgûl’s are warning against free market union busting, you know the policy is a fucking nightmare!
Destroying the Fair Pay Agreements is a direct attack on working people, we are witnessing a class war with none of the political vocabulary to fight it because the middle class woke activists have sucked out all the oxygen for their identity politic virtue signals!
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It’s enough to make your hair stand on end.
We can only hope that this blatant attack by the new govt on workers rights will force Labour to return to its roots and galvanize the working class into action.
Brook Vampire wants to ensure her 6% mandate gets what they voted for a lower waged economy
Par for the course with this lot. I guess on this issue they were transparent about being misguided arseholes that try to pretend fair pay agreements are bad for productivity.
Hey Anker, you need to come on here and try and justify this. You are a traitor to the working class, and if there is a hell, you sill burn in it
Hi Millsy, it seems many of the right-wing tossers who used to soil TDB with their words before the election have disappeared into thin air or have been beamed up. They’re hiding, bloody cowards.
Good riddance. However, shame on them for voting in this nightmare of a government.
Various of the tory trolls have indeed fucked off for now.
Some of them could barely complete a sentence, and others cascaded links and word salad.
Meanwhile the rest of us have to deal with Baldrick, Natzos/NZ First & Act in the real world.
I saw her justify the move on TV news. She said that advice is advice, government is government, and they would do what they campaigned on and had a mandate to do.
Of course I thought what mandate, because you’re only in that flash ministerial office because of a cobbled together disparate coalition.
But the callous arrogance was gobsmacking.
Yes, Grey. I also saw her attempting to justify the repeal. Saying: “ACT and National disagree with the idea of having a blunt tool like a fair pay agreement that would capture all employees and all employers within an industry without increasing productivity”
However, I felt she wasn’t very well challenged by the interviewer when it came to replacing it with something better.
She claimed we need to make an environment where we have productivity growth, yet wasn’t asked how she plans to achieve that, nor (more importantly) how that productivity gain will be fairly redistributed to low-paid employees
Any picture with bullshit Bennett in giving advice to Van veldon the vampire will be corrupt. Benefit fraud and fake meth houses are Bennetts legacy.
I imagine that when 15,000 Govt jobs on the line, we can probably expect every ministry to leak like a sieve.
Good – just desserts aye!
Look out, could be – an aye for an aye.
Who governs NZ, the Treasury or the voters?
All 3 parties in the coalition had this policy, which was one of the more well publicised.
So there is a clear electoral mandate for this particular change.
Yes, it is a philosophical difference between the Left and the Right.
It is core principle of the Right that cross industry pay agreements infringe the right of bargaining between individual employers and employees. Whereas the Left is committed to compulsory unionism.
Bullshit Wayne we can choose in or not.
The core industry of the right is a low wage economy and bigger profits for business who fund right wing parties.
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