Written By: advantage - Date published: 11:01 am, February 10th, 2022 - 42 comments
Categories: capitalism, climate change, covid-19, Deep stuff, food, greens, science, tourism
Tags:
… were getting paid by the hour. Most diners were flown in…, using people working precariat contracts doing 60 hours a week on minimum… parking is over $10 an hour, cycling remains terminally unsafe, no…. They won’t. They have zero money left for anything. The…
Written By: nickkelly - Date published: 10:36 pm, July 27th, 2020 - 19 comments
Categories: health and safety, Living Wage, minimum wage, Unions, workers' rights
Tags: awards, CTU, employment, Graeme Clarke, helen kelly, nick kelly, zero hour contracts
… been a shift towards contracting and people setting up …where people are freelance drivers contracting to Uber, rather than …be permanent employees with fixed hours or salaries. The union…who put their staff on zero–hour contracts despite the fact these …
Written By: nickkelly - Date published: 12:20 pm, December 5th, 2019 - 12 comments
Categories: Austerity, Brexit, uk politics
Tags: austerity, Boris Johnson, UK election, uk labour
… have been precarious, often on zero hour contracts or insecure in nature. For…
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:48 am, August 18th, 2019 - 54 comments
Categories: australian politics, climate change, making shit up, spin, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, uncategorized, you couldn't make this shit up
Tags: scomo, scott morrison
… and announcing a strategy for zero emissions by 2050. He described… and lasted for almost 12 hours. “That’s why it took… further comments will see his contract cancelled. https://twitter.com/Selby…
Written By: advantage - Date published: 11:46 am, January 17th, 2018 - 82 comments
Categories: accountability, business, climate change, economy, Economy, employment, Environment, greens, jacinda ardern, labour, local government, nz first, Politics, science, workers' rights
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…. No sign of anything yet. Zero Carbon Act and Commission: Establish…Ports of Auckland to Northport. Zero voter yield in three years…wage: Increase to $20 an hour by 2020, with the final… the Government's banker when that contract is next renewed. Lovely idea…
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 3:54 pm, October 24th, 2017 - 60 comments
Categories: election 2017, elections, labour, nz first, Politics
Tags:
… wage: Increase to $20 an hour by 2020, with the final… the Government's banker when that contract is next renewed. • Foreign ownership… by 2025/26, introduce a Zero Carbon Act and independent Climate…
Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 7:03 am, August 1st, 2017 - 19 comments
Categories: class war, election 2017, nz first, winston peters
Tags: election 2017, king maker, neoliberalism, nzf, winston peters
… in reverse” and railed against zero–hour contracts. … “The 33-year-old model…
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 2:10 pm, January 29th, 2017 - 3 comments
Categories: Andrew Little, election 2017, labour, Politics
Tags:
… force the government to ban zero hour contracts. We won a smashing victory…
Written By: Natwatch - Date published: 9:16 am, October 23rd, 2016 - 198 comments
Categories: capitalism, class war, labour, Unions
Tags: labour, Unions, wages
… is no doubt the Employment Contracts Act of 1991 had a… rates, their 2010 "$15 an hour" campaign helped push a National…. And last year their "End Zero Hours" campaign not only achieved guaranteed… hours for workers at the main …
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 12:00 pm, October 11th, 2016 - 13 comments
Categories: business, Unions, workers' rights
Tags: Iain Lees-Galloway, insecure work, unite union, zero hour contracts
… get fully guaranteed work hours for the first time… Restaurant Brands, which scrapped zero–hour contracts last year, to ensure …further certainty around workers' hours and shifts. Gerard Hehir…it as well." The zero–hour contracts ban was a team effort…
Written By: Guest post - Date published: 11:11 pm, June 22nd, 2016 - 21 comments
Categories: Unions, workers' rights
Tags: life and politics
… still does a bit of contract work for unions, including the…-farms, to trying to lock zero hour contracts into law. That said, Key…
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 11:08 am, May 23rd, 2016 - 31 comments
Categories: budget 2016, grant robertson, labour, tax
Tags: budget 2016, tax
… here at such an early hour on a Monday, for which… over time. GDP growth is zero on a per person basis… the rate of home ownership zero tolerance for child poverty world… not be a cover for contracting out and cutting funding. The…
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 9:00 am, March 11th, 2016 - 37 comments
Categories: greens, labour, maori party
Tags: council of trade unions, Iain Lees-Galloway, unite union, zero hour contracts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9NYzXKSJqs&feature=youtu.be As Iain said congratulations to everyone with a special thanks to: The Unite Union The Council of Trade Unions The Green Party New Zealand First Marama Fox Even Peter Dunne Even Michael Woodhouse…
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 2:07 pm, March 8th, 2016 - 126 comments
Categories: Andrew Little, business, class war, Economy, employment, labour, national
Tags: Iain Lees-Galloway
… resulted in the banning of zero hour contracts, Opposition Leader Andrew Little says… stop the exploitative practise of zero hour contracts. “An amendment put up by… want to do something about zero hour contracts, buckled when pressure was applied…
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 1:11 pm, March 2nd, 2016 - 78 comments
Categories: labour, Unions, wages, workers' rights
Tags: Iain Lees-Galloway, zero hour contracts
… down and commit to ending zero hour contracts. Unsurprisingly, the Nats broke … something in the law called ‘zero hour contracts’. Zero hour contracts are a result of a… what it promised and end zero hour contracts. Everyone deserves security and dignity…
Written By: BLiP - Date published: 7:33 am, November 27th, 2015 - 38 comments
Categories: Abuse of power, accountability, class war, corruption, crosby textor, democratic participation, Dirty Politics, Ethics, health and safety, human rights, john key, Judith Collins, law, Politics, science
Tags: anne tolley, beverley wakem, Jarrod Gilbert, mike bush, Official Information, ombudsman, police
…. Being more concerned with making zero hour contracts legal and helping out National…” by the police, and their contracts might “officially” be sweetened up…
Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 9:19 am, November 7th, 2015 - 50 comments
Categories: accountability, Dirty Politics, national, spin
Tags: national's record
… rubbish at keeping their word – Zero hour contracts could be here to stay…
Written By: Guest post - Date published: 4:45 pm, October 30th, 2015 - 97 comments
Categories: child welfare, class, class war, discrimination, Ethics, food, minimum wage, poverty, quality of life, unemployment, welfare
Tags: food banks, Korero Pono, poverty
…. Let’s face it, under zero–hour contracts, casualised labour and inadequate minimum… up? These charities vie for contracts to ‘fix’ the poor, use…
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 1:01 pm, October 14th, 2015 - 16 comments
Categories: health and safety, Unions, wages, workers' rights
Tags: helen kelly
…community here. Unite’s ZERO hours campaigns have raised forcefully the… the Living wage and Zero hours campaigns and communities believe …POAL wanting to sack and contract out its long standing and…regardless – it is a zero hours situation. It enables them …
Written By: Helen Kelly - Date published: 11:39 am, September 24th, 2015 - 53 comments
Categories: employment, Unions, wages, workers' rights
Tags: michael woodhouse, unite union, zero hour contracts
… the spectacular Unite campaign against "zero hour" contracts in fast food. These 24… many circumstances (CTU thinks many zero hour contracts will not be lawful in…. The Bill also allows for zero hour contracts or "availability provisions" as they…
Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 2:53 pm, August 21st, 2015 - 4 comments
Categories: accountability, class war, human rights, national, same old national, Unions
Tags: broken promises, typical nats, unite, unite union, zero hour contracts
… right: Unite: Bill allows zero–hour contracts in disguise Workplace Relations Minister…says national director Mike Treen. Zero–hour contracts involve an employee being required…ran an effective campaign against zero hour contracts, causing some employers to…
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 1:00 pm, August 15th, 2015 - 5 comments
Categories: business, Unions, workers' rights
Tags: kfc, unite union, zero hour contracts
…was only rostered for 12 hours over two shifts. Her …Wilson for the remaining ten hours not rostered under the …new guaranteed minimum hours system. Unite organiser Gary Cranston…possibly the first time the zero hours clause has resulted in payment…
Written By: BLiP - Date published: 7:17 am, August 14th, 2015 - 12 comments
Categories: accountability, employment, health and safety, jobs, Unions, workers' rights
Tags: CTU, helen kelly, Mobie, national, Nigel Hampton, worksafe
… minimum-wage variation of a zero–hours contract, shifts responsibility onto the worker… industry, was on $16 an hour and, illegally, being paid a…
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:00 pm, August 10th, 2015 - 48 comments
Categories: Unions, workers' rights
Tags: epmu, sfwu
… exploitative trends like stagnant wages, zero–hour contracts, down-skilling and insecure work…
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:23 am, July 18th, 2015 - 139 comments
Categories: articles, climate change, disaster, Environment, farming, global warming, Media, science, sustainability, the praiseworthy and the pitiful
Tags: jack tame, john roughan, nz herald
… housing market, dairy payouts and zero hour contracts will not matter. Earlier this…
Written By: Stephanie Rodgers - Date published: 3:00 pm, July 12th, 2015 - 30 comments
Categories: employment, national, workers' rights
Tags: lies, michael woodhouse, peter talley, zero hour contracts
… anyone explain the difference between zero hour contracts – which are exploitative trash -…a zero hours contract to me. This is the problem for the government. Zero hour contracts…industries which employ people on zero–hour contracts, there is literally no …
Written By: lprent - Date published: 10:52 pm, July 6th, 2015 - 20 comments
Categories: bill english, tax, wages
Tags: it's the economy stupid, The Economist
… of casual work like the "zero hour" contracts and unpaid "internships" is a… rich-world pack. Its unexpected contraction in the first quarter looks… expected to remain stuck near zero. When central banks face their…
Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 10:42 am, July 5th, 2015 - 23 comments
Categories: activism, Conservation, Environment, sustainability
Tags: activism, Environment, greenpeace, paul little
… signs around for a few hours recently can best be seen… eye-catching feats which have zero effect. …. And so on. I…. For some reading on Greenpeace's "zero effect" start with this list… pressuring Lego to drop its contract with Shell. It's the latest…
Written By: Helen Kelly - Date published: 9:50 am, July 4th, 2015 - 41 comments
Categories: human rights, workers' rights
Tags:
… the worst elements of zero hour contracts and deductions from workers … the worst element for zero hours is that in most … probably legislate to make zero hours lawful but put in …allowance), or insufficient security of hours and irregular shifts – which…
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