Labour’s plan to boost skills development refreshing
The future of work needs to be one where working people have good, satisfying jobs with decent incomes, and Labour’s…
worker rights
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EXCLUSIVE: Stop the clock on wage theft!
TDB was the first news source to publish the size and extent of the holidays rort – read the latest developments here
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Well, well, well – 90 day right to fire doesn’t create jobs after all
The problem is that the average National voter doesn’t care if policy actually stands up to scrutiny, they hate left wing people and values and the perception that it somehow damages them is all a National voter cares about. That the policy works is secondary to the spite it might cause.
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GUEST BLOG: Sam Gribben – Standing up to Talleys
On Thursday, Talley’s Group Ltd was fined for its role in the death of Leighton Muir, a Kiwi bloke in his 20s who was decapitated on a Talley’s tuna vessel. According to a Muir family friend, Leighton was “a happy, hard-working young man who always had a great big, beaming smile.”
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EXCLUSIVE: Workers could be owed billions of dollars
The systematic corporate theft of workers holiday pay which was first publicly identified on The Daily Blog in February this year, could result in up to $2 billion in back pay for hundreds of thousands of workers in New Zealand.
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Breaking through the silence
Last year a caregiver, Morven Hughes, was interviewed on Radio New Zealand, about her role in the care sector. Neither she nor her employer were named because of Morven’s fear of retribution. Her employer, a corporate residential care provider, recognized her Scottish accent and took steps to punish and silence her through disciplinary action
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NZs worst employer – AFFCO Talleys – is butchering worker rights – again
News that NZs worst employer, AFFCO Talleys, are now trying to kill off any social media criticism of their despicable work practices, union busting and appalling work and safety record is just the latest round of this disgusting company gleefully crushing worker rights.
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MUST READ GUEST BLOG: Darien Fenton – A chilling move from New Zealand’s most notorious company?
Social media has become a means of workers talking to each other and organising around their issues and disputes, but…
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Victory for fast food workers on international day of action
Unite Union scored a win for workers at Restaurant Brands on April 14 which was an international day of action for fast food workers.
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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.