The NZCTU has joined with Business NZ and health and safety groups to call on the Government to drop its plans to reform health and safety law. The Postal Workers Union is opposing a plan to reduce rural postal deliveries from five to three days a week. The Government has announced that it will make redress payments to a group of Lake Alice survivors after "inequities" in a 2001 settlement were identified. ERO are saying that school absences have reached a crisis point and are calling on government to overhaul the attendance system. In economic news, rental prices are going down around the country, driven by a lack of demand as people leave New Zealand or choose to live with relatives.
Union coverage
- CTU: A Labour Day of reflecting on what working people have lost
- CTU: Thousands protest Government's anti-worker policies
- CTU: Businesses and unions oppose major overhaul of Health and Safety Act
- PWU: 'Do more harm than good': Union on proposed postal delivery cutbacks
- ASMS: Association of Salaried Medical Specialists: Union doubts impact of fast-tracking registration pathway for overseas medical graduates
- ASMS: Health system relies on doctors overworking, says burnt out cardiologist
- E tū: TVNZ abandons plan to axe its 1News website
Employment
- Number of WorkSafe Corrections investigations labelled 'shocking' by union
- Migrants promised fake job no longer eligible for exploitation protection visa
- Fossil fuel jobs unit closed because it didn't align with government priorities
Politics
- Lake Alice: Government to address historic redress inequities
- Chronic school absences reaching 'crisis levels', ERO says
- Nearly $100,000 spent on catering Health NZ conference
- Watch: How the government is moving to streamline building consents
- Labour 'cautiously' supports tradies signing off their own work
- David Seymour not keen on swastika ban – despite gang patch crackdown
- Two-thirds of voters support capital gains tax 'in some form' – poll
Te Ao Māori
- Slight fall in suspected suicide figures, Māori still worst-affected
- US tribal leaders meet with Māori at indigenous symposium
Economics
- Rental prices fall as people leave NZ for greener pastures
- Spark dials back profit outlook and dividend payout
- Turning forestry waste into sustainable aviation fuel could pump millions into economy
- New World, Pak'nSave removing webite sort-by-price option 'dodgy' – shoppers
- SIS, GCSB join with Five Eyes partners to warn Kiwi businesses of tech theft
Opinion
- Disability community's nervous wait for the next hammer blow
- Time for ComCom to play hardball with supermarkets over wholesale regime
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