Press Release – Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment A Huntly boarding house operator has been ordered to pay $8,956.28 and received a restraining order following evidence brought forward by MBIEs Tenancy Compliance and Investigations Team (TCIT) at the Tenancy Tribunal. A TCIT investigation found …
A Huntly boarding house operator has been ordered to pay $8,956.28 and received a restraining order following evidence brought forward by MBIE’s Tenancy Compliance and Investigations Team (TCIT) at the Tenancy Tribunal.
A TCIT investigation found landlord Poomia Investments Limited failed to lodge the bonds for 37 of its tenants at Rawhiti Lodge boarding house, and asked eight of those tenants to pay rent in advance before the expiry of the period for which their rent had already been paid.
OPINION: A multi-million-dollar subsidy flows each week to landlords around the country – and the amount handed over is growing quickly. But this isn’t the stream of private market capital gains, which deliver a serious windfall to property investors in years like the one we’ve just had. This is taxpayer money delivered from the Government. Data shows that there are almost 370,000 people now receiving the accommodation supplement – Government assistance that can be used to pay private rent and mortgage commitments. The bulk of these are renters – in September last year, just under 50,000 people were receiving support for the cost of owning their own homes.
New workers also need access to sick leave, union says
30 Jan, 2021 08:08 PM
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RNZ
The Council of Trade Unions (CTU) is calling on Parliament to ditch the rule that requires workers to be employed for six months before they can get sick leave.
A bill to double employees sick leave entitlements from five days to 10 is before a select committee.
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The CTU presented on the topic to the Education and Workforce committee during the week.
Its secretary, Melissa Ansell-Bridges, said people need to be able to access sick leave, no matter how long they have been working in the role.
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Heritage Expeditions co-owner Nathan Russ talks about the work his company did to gain government approval to operate the first expedition or cruise ship in New Zealand since lockdown (first published November 2020).
Le Lapérouse was due to arrive in Auckland on Saturday after getting Ministry of Health permission to run a series of domestic cruises starting next week, but on Thursday as the vessel approached New Zealand, Immigration NZ officials refused visa exemptions for 61 crewmembers classed as hotel staff. The New Zealand Cruise Association said it was “shocked and quite simply bewildered” at moves to prevent the vessel coming here because all the ship’s crew were essential to its operation, and could not be replaced by New Zealanders in such a short time.