In 2019 we had one of the highest net migration inflows per head of population, with 11.4 per 1000 people, compared to 2.4 per 1000 in Britain and 3.8 per 1000 in the United States. Businesses have benefited from this large growth in labour, and admitted as much during the conference’s morning tea break. Over danishes, croissants, bliss balls and coffee, directors confessed migrants on work visas sometimes made up the majority of their workers in areas like information technology. Now the migration tap has been turned off and those settings could stay this way for a significant period of time according to Spoonley.
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The fair pay agreement policy is aimed at improving private sector wages and conditions and encouraging firms to invest in training.
Earlier this week, the pay of public servants earning more than $60,000 a year was frozen for the next three years. Pay rises for those in this salary range can only be made under exceptional circumstances.
Auckland Action Against Poverty is calling on the government to reverse the pay freeze for public servants.
Coordinator Brooke Pao Stanley said when inflation was taken into account, many workers would experience a pay cut in real terms. We know how hard it is for people who are living on inadequate incomes. We re living through a housing crisis and the cost of living continues to rise, she said.
Press Release – New Zealand Initiative The Governments proposal announced today to impose compulsory industry-wide collective bargaining on employees and employers without their agreement or even their participation will harm everyone but unions, said Roger Partridge, chair of The New Zealand …
The Government’s proposal announced today to impose compulsory industry-wide collective bargaining on employees and employers without their agreement or even their participation will harm everyone but unions,” said Roger Partridge, chair of The New Zealand Initiative.
Partridge said The New Zealand Initiative’s 2019 report,
Work in Progress: Why Fair Pay Agreements would be bad for labour, found that Fair Pay Agreements would be likely to harm productivity and would be not be in the interests of workers, the unemployed, consumers, and overall wellbeing.
Partridge said The New Zealand
Initiative’s 2019 report,
Work in Progress: Why Fair
Pay Agreements would be bad for labour, found that Fair
Pay Agreements would be likely to harm productivity and
would be not be in the interests of workers, the unemployed,
consumers, and overall wellbeing.
“Rather than
advancing the government’s vision of a high-wage,
high-productivity economy, Fair Pay Agreements would
undermine it,” Partridge said.
The Initiative’s
2019 report examined the claims in favour of Fair Pay
Agreements proposals and found there were no good grounds
for them. Its research revealed New Zealand’s labour
market settings were actually working well for both workers