EXCLUSIVE: Annual leave debacle continues to grow
Labour inspectors have found that every one of the 20 employers they have looked at so far were found to have breached the 2003 Holidays Act.
Mike Treen
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EXCLUSIVE: Holiday pay miscalculation more than a “mistake”
The Daily Blog was breaking news about workers being underpaid holidays before the mainstream media even woke up to the story. You can read what’s happening now on The Daily Blog or read about it in the mainstream media a fortnight later.
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The Future of Work: A nightmare or arena of struggle?
The Future of Work Conference sponsored by the Labour Party this week was a stimulating look at a range of ideas for dealing with the challenges that the current system is preparing for people in the 21st Century.
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The real issue is the exploitation of migrant labour by big business
The Labour Party has been trapped into appearing as being opposed to migrant workers in New Zealand.
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EXCLUSIVE: Employers holiday pay cheating can be stopped!
We discovered a bit over a year ago that most employers we dealt with, and the payroll systems they used, were not doing the necessary calculations for this.
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MUST READ: Zero hours end product of workers struggle
As I am writing (Thursday, March 10), the New Zealand parliament has unanimously passed a law that will eliminate zero…
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Need to raise goal in minimum wage fight
Current CTU policy is for a minimum wage of two-thirds of the average wage and for that level to be indexed in law. The law protects National Superannuation payments which are indexed so that the couple rate is at least 66% of the net average wage. There is no reason economically why the minimum wage could not be returned to that two-thirds of the average wage level.
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Corporate theft of workers holiday pay uncovered
Corporate theft of workers’ holiday pay appears to be routine according to an investigation by Unite Union that began last year.
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Government boasts of benefit theft
While 2015 did see an increase in the size of the working age population this was driven principally by immigration. The number of jobs in the economy grew, but at a slower pace than the population. The unemployment rate fell, but principally driven by people giving up looking for work. That is not progress.
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Too Little, too late?
I have avoided having a crack at Andrew Little and the Labour Party’s campaign strategy until now as I thought he deserved the right to have a bit of time to establish himself and chart his own course.