2018
Child Poverty Reduction Bill
Consultation on Immigration Settings for International Students
The CTU welcomes the proposed changes as a contribution to eliminating exploitation in the employment of international students and recent graduates on post-study visas. This submission has three key recommendations: That employer-assisted post-study work visas be replaced as proposed with open work visas of three years for degree level 7 or above and one year… Read more »
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CTU Economic Bulletin 199 – April 2018
CTU Economic Bulletin 203 – September 2018
CTU Economic Bulletin 205 – November 2018
CTU Economic-Bulletin 204 – October 2018
CTU-Monthly-Economic-Bulletin-201-June-2018
CTU-Report-on-Budget-2018
Education Amendment Bill
Employment Relations (Triangular Employment) Amendment Bill
Employment Relations Amendment Bill
The NZCTU’s submission to the Education and Workforce Select Committee on the Employment Relations Amendment Bill.
Read more...Families Commission Act Repeal Bill
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Read more...How Much Funding Does Health Need in Budget 2018?
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Joint NZCTU, PSA, E tū and NZNO Submission on the Privacy Bill
This is a collaborative submission made on behalf of the NZCTU, PSA Etū an NZNO unions. We support aspects of the improvements in the Privacy Bill, but consider that the dimension of workers’ rights to privacy, and beneficiaries’ rights to privacy, have not been given sufficient consideration. Privacy legislation is most important for providing employment… Read more »
Read more...Kiwifund Bill
Living Standards Dashboard: Monitoring Intergenerational Wellbeing
The current Government and the Finance Minister has said that there is an intention to base Budget 2019 on a Living Standards Framework. We welcome the political championing by the new Government of basing policy and Budgets on wellbeing and improving living standards. It requires an acceleration of work on the Living Standards Framework. Given… Read more »
Read more...Mental Health and Addiction Inquiry
NZCTU submission to the Tax Working Group
It is essential that the state is sufficiently resourced to carry out its functions and to perform its important redistributive role. Taxation is the means to achieve a better society and needs to be promoted as such. The Government will need significantly more revenue in the coming decade to address New Zealand’s social deficits, inequality… Read more »
Read more...NZCTU Survey on the Interim Report of the Tax Working Group
In April 2018 the NZCTU commissioned UMR Research to conduct an online survey of New Zealanders about their views around taxation. We shared the results of that survey in our feedback on the Tax Working Group’s “Future of Tax” background paper in May1. In response to the Working Group’s Interim Report, the NZCTU has conducted a further online survey of Together.org.nz supporters to re-test our initial findings and provide specific feedback to a number of particular issues raised by the Interim Report.
Read more...Overseas Investment Amendment Bill
Privacy Bill
This is the NZCTU’s submission to the Justice Select Committee on the Privacy Bill 2018, in collaboration with PSA, NZNO, and E tū. The significant technological advances since the inception of the Privacy Act in 1993 mean this Bill is long-awaited. New Zealand is not alone in recognising the need for change in our privacy laws as evidenced by the fact most privacy laws around the world have been reviewed or updated in the past three years.
Read more...Productivity Commission Report on Measuring and Improving State Sector Productivity
Submission on the Equal Pay Amendment Bill
The New Zealand Council of Trade Union’s submission to the Education and Workforce Select Committee on the Equal Pay Amendment Bill.
Read more...Submission on the Tax Working Group’s Interim Report
The tightly-constrained current level of government spending is not consistent with the aspirations of the New Zealand public for health, education, infrastructure, housing affordability, progress towards the carbon-zero goal, reducing inequality, and provision of quality public services in general. Both the 30%-of-GDP target in the Group’s Terms of Reference and the “revenue neutral” suggestion in the Ministers’ letter of 20 September 2018 place higher priority on arbitrary fiscal bright-lines than on the well-being of our people, society and environment.
Read more...Taxation (Neutralising Base Erosion and Profit Shifting) Bill
UK Trade Union Confederation Submission on UK-NZ Trade
A submission to the UK Department of International Trade.
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