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'Everyone is feeling the pinch': Living wage set to increase in September
The New Zealand Living Wage rate will increase by 9.9 per cent.
Living wage boost, new youth crime stats & Hipkins' honeymoon over | Focus Morning Bulletin: 3 April, 2023
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Hospital staff to receive long-awaited unpaid backpay
Te Whatu Ora said it now expected payments to current staff to begin in July.
Pay packets not keeping up with inflation
Figures show wage growth may have plateaued and tracking behind annual inflation.
Shane Te Pou: Don’t cast workers on the scrapheap
Calls for higher unemployment and lower wages hurt ordinary people the most.
London Heathrow security guards to strike for 10 days over Easter
It's the latest in mass UK strikes and will cause chaos over busy Easter travel period.
Women’s Day highlights eroded progress as 'patriarchy fights back'
Gender equality won’t be achieved for 300 years given the current pace of change: UN head.
AI: Is your job at risk from digital humans?
Companies will employ the next-gen robots in the next 10 years, a report predicts.
Downtown cruise ship berths could be boon for CBD
OPINION: Letters on cruise ships, policy cull, minimum wage, Marsden Pt, charter schools.
Editorial: Social insurance scheme had best intentions but too complex
Editorial: It's not surprising the $3.5 billion proposal is "off the table" for now.
Minimum wage hike could make it harder to hire migrants - restaurant owners
Businesses worry about the flow-on effects of a decent minimum wage hike.
Super Fund pays $16m in bonuses, one staffer gets $500k
Nearly 60 staff getting bonuses worth $100,000 or more.
What impact will minimum wage hike have on inflation?
ANZ chief economist believes 7 per cent minimum wage hike won't make inflation much worse.
Minimum wage set to increase by $1.50/hr
Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has announced the move to a new rate of $22.70 per hour.
Tempting back older workers into jobs means ditching business as usual
Financial Times: The expectation of a work-free retirement needs to go.
AUT drops redundancy plan, staff to keep jobs for at least six months
Lengthy union negotiations have resulted in AUT backing out of staff dismissals.
After a pay rise this year? Don't bank on it
Tight control over salary budgets a hard truth for many employees.
Google axes 12,000 jobs as tech sector layoffs spread
It equates to 6 per cent of Google's workforce, in latest mass tech culls.
Thousands of UK ambulance workers go on strike
Nurses, train and bus drivers and postal workers are also striking across the UK.
Firefighters accept pay offer
Firefighers have accepted a pay offer after the Government topped up what was on offer.
ERA makes interim order to raise pay for 30,000 nurses
Health authority already planning to process the pay increases to rates agreed last year
Health authority asks ERA to order pay equity rates for nurses
Te Whatu Ora Health NZ boss says it already agreed in principle to 14 per cent higher pay
NZ experienced ‘social distancing’ of a different kind well before Covid-19. Here's how to fix it.
ANALYSIS: New Zealanders were social distancing long before Covid. Here's how.
Consumer confidence takes a dive as cost of living bites
In news that will cheer the Reserve Bank, consumers feel more downbeat about spending.
Nurse unions take Te Whatu Ora to court over pay equity settlement
It comes amid a national nurse shortage and increasingly pressured emergency departments.
Opinion: This is not what I want to have in common with Sienna Miller
OPINION: Sienna Miller and I have the wrong thing in common.
Wage squeeze: 'We'll pay the best, the most that we can'
Chamber chair Glenda Brown said businesses are pressured to pay premium wage rates.
Quiet year for strikes, as workers win pay settlements
2022 looks set to record the lowest number of strikes since 2017.
Former TVNZ CEO Kevin Kenrick pocketed nearly $2.1m after final eight months
More than half of it was a performance incentive.
Gib shortage: Delivery workers strike for better pay
They want an 11 per cent pay rise, but the company has offered much less.
The living-wage debate: Are law firms playing by the book?
Some firms claim they pay a living wage but they're not accredited. Does it matter?