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UPDATE: Following a sustained Kiwi public backlash against it, Cotton On has now - apparently - backed down in its attempt to force staff at its Auckland distribution centre to negotiate whether or not or when they can have rest and meal breaks.…
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Interesting piece in the NBR today (paywalled): Osborne silent over Te Ahu centre review National’s Mark Osborne is refusing to comment on his role as general manager of the controversial $15 million Te Ahu centre, which is now the subject of a governance and funding…
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Originally posted at Boots Theory. Of course it would be Paula Bennett, the government's most infamous ladder-retracting Minister, getting headlines about irresponsible parenting being the real cause of children going to school with no lunches. "[Voting down the "Feed the Kids" Bill] is absolutely is the…
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A couple of recent events provide an interesting contrast and show how the handling of disclosures under the need to know policy by this government varies. The most recent is that involving Carmel Sepuloni. She learned the day before that her mother was to appear in…
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Cotton On have hit the news for all the wrong reasons, with FIRST Union revealing that they're pushing to remove guaranteed rest and meal breaks from workers in their distribution centre. FIRST General Secretary Robert Reid says: “Breaks are crucial on industrial sites because they…
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In the NZ herald today, Terence O'Brien has been questioned about the recent revelations of spying to get Minister's jobs after politics. Despite a Press Corp being with the PM in ROK, none has yet bothered to as the Koreans, or the former Foreign Minister…
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Via a bemused Lyndon Hood:
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Like Danyl at Dim-Post I find it hard to believe that National could lose Northland. They have huge resources to throw at it, both as a party (massive polling, phone banks, transport, hordes of "Key people") and as a government ($69 million for bridges any…
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A definite inclusion in the I kid you not file. David Fisher in the Herald revealed this morning that not only is the GCSB engaged in the detection of terrorist threats and the protection of national security but also the interception of communications in an attempt to…
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Where does this leave National's "social housing" sell-off? Salvation Army rejects buying state homes: 'Housing NZ is making a mess' Social provider admits it lacks ‘expertise, resources’, leaves field open to property developers, financiers. The Salvation Army has decided against buying state homes off the…
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