Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Occupy: Don't call it a protest, in reply to dyan campbell,
is Paul Moon really an academic?
I guess like other professions they have a range of competence.
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Hard News: Occupy: Don't call it a protest, in reply to Tom Semmens,
Tunisia today
That's a cooking show, right?
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OnPoint: If Wishes Were Horses..., in reply to Bart Janssen,
Yes, and they deserve better than a government which believes their only hope of success is to make it easier to take more from their staff. That's far from ambitious.
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When anyone tells you the public sector is not being disassembled under this government of incompetent bean-counters, remember things like this. Cost of everything, value of nothing..
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Cathedral's fate to be announced this morning.
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National's 'employment' policy released. Spanking the uppity workers and the young.
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OnPoint: If Wishes Were Horses..., in reply to Paul Campbell,
I would guess April 1st
Due on July 1st, I recall - but it applies back to July *this year*, not "after the election" as English promised.
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OnPoint: If Wishes Were Horses..., in reply to Paul Campbell,
The employer portion is also tax free
Didn't that change in the last Budget?
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OnPoint: If Wishes Were Horses..., in reply to Sacha,
Farrar is misleading about this at least:
However the higher employer contribution will result in lower wages (Labour's policy acknowledges this explicitly) and fewer jobs.
His 'fear' only makes sense in a more laissez faire labour market like the Nats delight in.
The Labour package from what I've read also contains negotiated industry wage bargaining so the conversation about the reasonable sharing of profit between workers and investors/owners is more out in the open. If bosses want to take that extra 0.5% a year from workers' wages they'll at least need to front up about it.
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OnPoint: If Wishes Were Horses..., in reply to Gareth Ward,
But his Herald column is actually pretty bang-on.
Link.