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On the distribution of income

Written By: - Date published: 10:57 am, May 20th, 2008 - 57 comments

See that line that says minimum wage? Nearly half of kiwis earn less than that. Seven months ago, that was me. I was working removing asbestos contaminated glue from the floor of an office building along with half a dozen other guys. Now, asbestos is pretty dangerous stuff, inhaling a single thread of it can …

Junk pay

Written By: - Date published: 2:55 pm, May 15th, 2008 - 68 comments

The last couple of episodes of Fair Go have rightly taken aim at a distribution company - Reachmedia - that rips off young kids by paying them peanuts. Reachmedia (half owned by NZ Post) has been paying young kids sweatshop wages to distribute pamphlets for the likes of the Warehouse, Farmers, Michael Hill Jeweller, and Progressive Enterprises (the …

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