ERA Changes Hurt Workers, Pander To Big Business

ERA Changes Hurt Workers, Pander To Big Business

“This cruel Bill will cut off our most vulnerable workers from the rights that belong to them,” says the Green Party spokesperson for Workplace Relations and Safety, Teanau Tuiono.

Workers’ rights are in for a big shake-up in new bill

Changes are on the cards for workers in the Employment Relations Amendment Bill. Here’s what they might mean for you.

Charles Martin: How Labour’s employment 'Bill of Rights' undermines enterprise

Charles Martin is a political advisor and policy researcher. He is reading law at the University of Exeter. Labour’s flagship Employment Rights Bill is attempting to overhaul worker’s rights completely, with new measures such as “day one rights” and an overhaul on certainty around working hours. There is no doubt that the bill is well intentioned on the face of it, but look deeper into the incoming legislation and it is clear that it is riddled …

Radical employment bill threatens every NZ worker

The New Zealand Council of Trade Unions Te Kauae Kaimahi is urging all political parties to vote against Brooke van Velden’s new Employment Relations Amendment Bill, as it will severely undermine workers’ rights. “This new Bill will legislate many of the attacks on workers’ rights signalled by Brooke van Velden, fundamentally undermining the rights of working people in New Zealand’s employment relations system,” said NZCTU President Richard Wags…