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Roger Nome's Progressive Politics: National's 90 day Probationary Employment Bill. The Best Employment Rights Money Can Buy?
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Roger Nome's Progressive Politics. Tuesday, July 22, 2008. National's 90 day Probationary Employment Bill. The Best Employment Rights Money Can Buy? In the middle of 2006, the National Party succeeded in getting a private member's bill drawn, called the "Employment Relations (Probationary Employment) Amendment Bill". It provoked huge protests all around the country, and was eventually thrown out due to lack of support within parliament. May at any time . terminate the employee's employment forthwith.
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Roger Nome's Progressive Politics: Kiwis are overworked says new study.
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Roger Nome's Progressive Politics. Thursday, July 24, 2008. Kiwis are overworked says new study. Well, the Department of Labour has confirmed what we all knew. New Zealanders are working ever longer hours, and now, one in three full time employees are working over 50 hours per week. Resulting in slower wage growth. Contrary to what National has been saying. The wage gap between NZ and Australia isn't due to us being over-taxed, in fact we are the third lowest-taxed developed country on the planet. If you...
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Roger Nome's Progressive Politics: Nat's Welfare Policies #1. Single Parents: "kick 'em when they're down".
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Roger Nome's Progressive Politics. Sunday, August 10, 2008. Nat's Welfare Policies #1. Single Parents: "kick 'em when they're down". The National Party has just announced that, should it be able to form the next government, it would. Require DPB recipients . to spend at least 15 hours a week either in employment, training or job-seeking activities once their youngest child turns six. Successive Labour-led Governments have retained National's benefit reforms, and have continued to increase benefit levels ...
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Roger Nome's Progressive Politics: Farrar's big beef looks like rationed greens.
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Roger Nome's Progressive Politics. Saturday, January 15, 2011. Farrar's big beef looks like rationed greens. Over at NZ's far-right barometer known as "kiwiblog", lord of the fries David Farrar is busy picking over the minor details of Wellington's green Mayor's spending. This is NZ's most read right wing blog. What does this say about the right wing of NZ politics? Well i'll leave that up to you, the reader to decide. Http:/ www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2011/01/celias e-mail to councillors.html. Roger Nome's Prog...
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Roger Nome's Progressive Politics: Labour Productivity and Collective Bargaining Coverage. Noticing a pattern?
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Roger Nome's Progressive Politics. Thursday, August 16, 2007. Labour Productivity and Collective Bargaining Coverage. Noticing a pattern? August 22, 2007 at 4:48 PM. One thing. Having a union increases wage growth, makes labour relatively more expensive compared to other inputs. As firms set the marginal revenue product equal to the marginal cost for an input, countries with higher wages must hire less employees (as marginal revenue product is decreasing in the number of employees). What your post shows ...
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Roger Nome's Progressive Politics: Why New Zealand needs its Unions back #2
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Roger Nome's Progressive Politics. Sunday, July 22, 2007. Why New Zealand needs its Unions back #2. Ok, so this section follows on from my last post . July 22, 2007 at 1:35 PM. But roger this is your interpretation, and there are others. The large wage increases in the 1980s were also due to other factors. Although the labour government brought in good reforms they were unable to control their spending or inflation and interest rates were in double figures. July 22, 2007 at 5:46 PM. LAWS 179: Elephants a...
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Roger Nome's Progressive Politics: Of deception and class war?
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Roger Nome's Progressive Politics. Monday, October 4, 2010. Of deception and class war? Today the Herald has reported on the treasury department's plans to reduce spending on the welfare of our most vulnerable - solo-mothers, children and the mentally ill. The policies, as reported include:. Move work-ready people from sickness and invalid benefits on to dole. Make sole parents look for paid work before youngest child turns 6. Contract out welfare services to private companies and charities. It will be i...
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Roger Nome's Progressive Politics: Nat's welfare policies #2 : "Stickin' it to the mentally ill."
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Roger Nome's Progressive Politics. Sunday, August 10, 2008. Nat's welfare policies #2 : "Stickin' it to the mentally ill.". On page one of their welfare policy background paper, National complains that there has been a "steady increase" in the number of people receiving the sickness benefit since Labour came to power. Http:/ www.stats.govt.nz/analytical-reports/Labour Market Statistics 2007.htm' page 38 of the 2007 Labour Market Report. And page 1 of the background paper. Wouldn't puuting them in that si...
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Roger Nome's Progressive Politics: National Prepares to Make War on the Poor
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Roger Nome's Progressive Politics. Tuesday, July 22, 2008. National Prepares to Make War on the Poor. In the previous post, I looked at what the practical legal implications of the "Probationary Employment Bill" would be, should National come to power. In this post, I look at the likely victims of this legislation, and just as I had suspected, it's NZ's poorest and most vulnerable. According to the 2007 Labour market report (pg 56). So it seems likely that most of the people working in these industries w...
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Roger Nome's Progressive Politics: The Future
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Roger Nome's Progressive Politics. Thursday, July 21, 2011. Http:/ thestandard.org.nz/govt-hits-peak-denial/#comment-354752. Yet - we see none of these things happening in the National government. This means that the "under-class" (the label John Key has given to the under and unemployed) suffers more, and grows ever larger, and more vocal). Eventually this will require more repression of the poor though force (police and perhaps military). Http:/ www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?
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