Minimum wage Archive

  • frog

    ACC cuts put home care workers below minimum wage - by frog



    It is not just the caregivers who will suffer from this policy. Injured people who live in isolated areas are likely to find it increasingly difficult to find any caregiver prepared to travel to their home to provide the home help or attendant care they need. But do ACC care? Seems not. read more
    November 10, 2009 3:13 pm - 9 Comments
  • frog

    Government tells those on minimum wage to tread water - by frog



    Very conveniently, at 4pm on the eve of parliament re-convening, the government has tried to quietly announce that they will raise the minimum wage by 50 cents, in line with inflation. It’s not good enough, given that the current minimum wage is not a living wage. Our lowest paid citizens, already up to their gunwales [...] read more
    February 9, 2009 4:48 pm - 104 Comments
  • Sue Bradford

    Lowest paid should not be expected to bear the cost of recession - by Sue Bradford



    Rumours are growing in Wellington that National will not increase the minimum wage this year. A Government announcement is expected on or before 9 February. Intimations that Kate Wilkinson, the new Minister of Labour, will recommend a nil minimum wage increase to Cabinet have hit the blogosphere despite her own Department supporting a rise from [...] read more
    January 27, 2009 1:57 pm - 105 Comments
  • frog

    Being productive on the minimum wage - by frog



    The Employers and Manufacturers Association rather unsurprisingly came out criticising the Greens campaign for a $15 an hour minimum wage. The part of their argument that I found the most incongruent was their claim on National Radio this morning that “employees should be paid according to their productivity”. I would have thought that in your [...] read more
    October 20, 2008 10:14 am - 39 Comments
  • frog

    UK Green Party – living wage, warm homes and public transport - by frog



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    October 3, 2008 8:29 am - 1 Comment
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    Metiria gets personal - by frog



    Metiria launched the Greens’ youth policy last weekend with a fair amount of frankness: When I did it for the first time, I confess it wasn’t for love, it was for fun. My boyfriend and I had stayed out the whole night before and the next morning, still awake and restless we just thought, “Yeah, [...] read more
    August 5, 2008 10:46 am - 29 Comments
  • frog

    Sleeping it off - by frog



    Ok, let’s stop mucking about and close that wealth gap with Australia.  Seems it need not involve taxes, or workplace reform or even an affinity for Jimmy Bartel.  Seems we could save billions of dollars just by spending more time asleep. According the Herald: Sleep expert Professor Philippa Gander said widespread sleep deprivation was “up [...] read more
    December 11, 2007 12:54 pm - 57 Comments
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