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New Zealand has now had three “Wellbeing Budgets”: the prototype in 2019, the COVID-19 “Rebuilding Together” version in 2020, and today Finance Minister Grant Robertson announced the Labour government is “Securing our Recovery”.
With Labour governing with an absolute majority, projected debt levels lower than initially forecast and nearly NZ$1 billion from last year’s COVID-19 recovery fund unspent, expectations for housing, health, climate change and welfare have been heightened.
Here, our three experts respond to today’s budget and assess its implications in various crucial areas for the year ahead.
A budget for middle New Zealand
Jennifer Curtin, Public Policy Institute, University of Auckland
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Press Release – PSA The government has announced two more years of pay restriction for public servants, and the workers union says they feel betrayed. The Public Service Association represents almost 80,000 workers, many of whom wonder why the government would punish …
The government has announced two more years of pay restriction for public servants, and the workers’ union says they feel betrayed.
The Public Service Association represents almost 80,000 workers, many of whom wonder why the government would punish them after a year of sacrifice, hard work and success protecting New Zealanders from Covid-19.
For the next two years, public service employers have been instructed to offer only modest pay increases to workers in low paid roles, defined as those where the average pay is below $60,000. Workers paid above $60,000 will only be offered pay increases under select circumstances.