What a wild ride the last year has been. I look back to my first Bulletin in January – I had NO IDEA – and that wasn’t just that I was coming out of tax and in to labour market things. It is trite to say that Covid has changed everything but in some ways,… Read more »
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Hope you all enjoyed Labour Day this week – brought to you by the union movement. This month’s Economic Bulletin – a discussion of the minimum wage based on the recent CTU submission to the Government. It also includes some updated gender and ethnic wage gap graphs and finds the reduction in female employment, I… Read more »
Read more... For an election period we are, more than ever, spoilt for tax content Applying a tax policy lens – this means: Labour and the Green Party want to make personal taxation more progressive; National and ACT want to reduce or eliminate fiscal drag – more on that later – while National also want to restore… Read more »
Read more... The Council of Trade Unions has today released its official assessment and grading of the major political parties’ industrial relations policies, to assist working people in their voting choices. This general election working people in union have been campaigning in six key areas: Safer Sick Leave Fair Pay Agreements Four Weeks Minimum Redundancy Better Health… Read more »
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In this Bulletin I attempt to unpick the Labour Market Statistics that came out on the 5th August 20 for the June 20 quarter.
Read more... Last week in the dead of night – just before midnight on Thursday – the Government passed the Equal Pay Amendment Act. This Act set out to improve the process for women in occupations that have been economically disadvantaged compared to work of equal value done by men.
Read more... Will we have an equitable post – Covid-19 future? Because we certainly didn’t have an equitable pre-Covid past. And this was heavily acknowledged by Grant Robertson in his pre-Budget address. His concerns of child poverty, expensive housing, people working hard and not getting ahead, rising emissions and dirty waterways are also the concerns of the… Read more »
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In the third Wellbeing Budget on May 14, which will respond to the effects of the Covid-19 lockdown, at least the following items are vital to ensure the New Zealand economy does not continue to be low wage, low productivity, high rent and high carbon: Support for industry that commits to paying at least living… Read more »
Read more... I very nearly didn’t write this. All month I have been thinking of angles or important things to discuss – only to find a day later – events had overtaken. Anyone remember the call to suspend the minimum wage increase? No? Great. Keep moving. And the other thing I would be doing normally would be… Read more »
Read more... The Council of Trade Unions has today launched an online tool www.together.org.nz/covid-19-work-rights for working Kiwis to identify employers who aren’t doing the right thing during the COVID-19 period.
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