Friday, 23 July 2021, 11:39 am
Employers across the country are reminded the amount of
sick leave staff are legally entitled to increases from five
days per year to 10 from 24 July 2021.
As part of the
new change, eligible employees will be entitled to 10 days
sick leave each year after working for their employer for
six months, or if they are already entitled to sick leave,
from their next entitlement date . Many employers may
already provide at least 10 days’ sick leave and are not
impacted by the change.
Employsure,
New Zealand’s largest workplace relations advisor, is
urging business owners new to providing 10 days sick leave
Friday, 23 July 2021, 1:27 pm
Quarantine Free Travel from all Australian states and
territories to New Zealand is being suspended as the Covid
situation there worsens, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and
COVID-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins announced
today.
From 11.59pm today Australians will no longer
be able to enter New Zealand quarantine-free. This will be
in place for at least the next 8 weeks.
For the next
seven days there will be managed return flights for New
Zealanders from all states and territories that will require
proof of a negative pre-departure test. Additionally, those
who have been in NSW will still have to go into MIQ for 14
Friday, 23 July 2021, 8:46 am
Data from a Platform 1 survey of business owners in June
2021 shows COVID-19 is continuing to cause private business
owners in New Zealand to reconsider their succession
plans.
37% of respondents said their exit strategy
needs to be reconsidered compared to 41% from the same
survey conducted in May 2020, after the first
lockdown.
The number of business owners who said their
succession plans would be delayed has decreased from 25% to
17% in 2021.
Coupled with this, over 60% of the
business owners surveyed did not have a succession plan in
place, which is an increase on the 48% from the 2020
survey.
“While owners may state their preferred
Friday, 23 July 2021, 10:11 am
The Ministry of Social Development has only just begun
‘scoping’ an information sharing arrangement with Police
to improve outcomes for Kiwis in emergency housing, despite
already having the information it needs, National’s Social
Development and Employment spokesperson Louise Upston
says.
“For months we’ve heard police report
incidents of violence, intimidation, public urination, drug
deals and gang involvement are happening at MSD emergency
motels, so it beggars belief Government has just realised
Police and MSD should work together to combat
this.
“With more than 4000 children in emergency
housing the Government should’ve been using all the tools
Friday, 23 July 2021, 10:36 am
“The ACT Party is calling on teachers and Ministry of
Education staff who feel uncomfortable being forced into
Critical Race Theory training to reject it,” says ACT’s
Education spokesperson Chris Baillie.
“ACT revealed
yesterday that more than half of Education Ministry staff
have been through a course called ‘Courageous
Conversations about Race.’ The course teaches them that
“guilt and shame” are natural responses to “white
privilege.”
“The American program has been
reported as requiring people to stand up and list their
privilege. It sounds like something Pol Pot or Mao Tse Tung
would require. People must acknowledge they are bad and