Daily review 15/02/2024

Written By: - Date published: 5:30 pm, February 15th, 2024 - 9 comments
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9 comments on “Daily review 15/02/2024 ”

  1. gsays 1

    From the SSDD files.

    Te Whatu Ora has been underpaying nurses their Holiday Pay and other entitlements to the tune of $1.95B! dating back to 2010.

    Nurses have had promise after promise, only to receive delay after delay, year on year. Some staff are owed tens of thousands of $.

    The most recent fibs had the dates for payment in January, then 9 February. Now it is to be in the next fortnight.

    Reverse the roles and it's called theft as a servant, instant dismissal and an appointment in court is yr likely consequence.

    A linky to NZNO press release.

    Nurses furious at Te Whatu Ora Holidays Act remediation pay delays (nzno.org.nz)

    You would have thought having Ernst and Young setting up the latest iteration of our health system, they could at least get the bookkeeping correct./sarc

  2. Rosielee 2

    This is obscene. NZ was once a decent and fair society. Now we're going to hell in a handcart. National or Labour. Irrelevant.

    • gsays 2.1

      I agree with you.

      The politicians appear to be well insulated from the troubles faced by the rest of us. Adhering to a ideology that has shown itself to be not fit for purpose time and time again.

      I have been watching Utopia, an Aussie (Rob Sitch) comedy series about NBA, the Nation Building Authority, a ficticious outfit who's CEO deals with slightly incompetent staff, an overly enthusiastic media liason type and a vague, changeable politician. It's comedy but I wonder if it is that far from reality.

      • Res Publica 2.1.1

        Having worked in both central and local government for nearly 15 years, I can confidently say that Utopia is discomfortingly close to how the real world public sector actually operates.

        • gsays 2.1.1.1

          Comedy for some, documentary for others.

          The Games, a few years back, as well as Frontline are also well observed Aussie comedies. The former with John Clark, the latter with Bruno Lawrence.

  3. john g 3

    To be fair nobody (lab or nat) really tried to fix the holiday legislation. I used to have a business with 10 staff. I couldn't figure out the correct holiday pay and nor could my accountant. The easiest solution was to make sure I paid them all too much, that way there was never going to be repercussions, which is what is happening to all sorts now.

  4. adam 4

    Nice move from the Australian federal MPs to support Assange.

  5. SPC 5

    More class warfare.

    The previous government was incentivising the domestic landlord class to move their money into new builds (by ending the deduction of interest cost against rent income for existing property), this government is looking to get this done by foreigners.

    https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2024/02/leaked-cabinet-paper-reveals-government-considering-allowing-potential-influx-of-overseas-landlords.html

    Will someone in our media ask a question of National as per their plan to have foreigners build rentals for locals to rent?

    Is there any place in the world where this happens?

    Follow up questions

    Has any research been done as to whether

    it would bid up the price of land for local developers and homeowners?

    reduce local home ownership levels

    the impact on the economy of rent money leaving the country

    the impact on society of a growing number of people not owning their property and losing the ability to work