Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced the date of the inaugural Matariki public holiday. Ngā Mata o te Ariki, more commonly known as Matariki, will.
The Government has also asked the Matariki Advisory Group to advise on future dates, as the exact timing of Matariki shifts each year, but these are expected to always fall on a Monday or Friday. Matariki will be a distinctly New Zealand holiday; a time for reflection and celebration, and our first public holiday that recognises Te Ao Māori, Ardern said in her speech at Waitangi s upper marae on Thursday. It s great to have the date locked in for next year. This will be a day to acknowledge our nation s unique, shared identity, and the importance of tikanga Māori. It s going to be something very special, and something uniquely New Zealand, she said.
Economists wary of billion-dollar cost of raising sick leave
27 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
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NZ Herald
ANALYSIS The Government s decision to double minimum sick leave will cost a billion dollars a year, nearly 1 per cent of the country s annual wage bill, and will be borne by employers, according to bureaucrats estimates.
The increase from a minimum of five to 10 days of annual sick leave, for which a bill was introduced in December, is the second and by far the most expensive of Labour s three main labour-market policy changes promised in the 2020 election.
The extra sick leave is estimated to cost more than the minimum wage increase and the new Matariki holiday combined.
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:52 am, January 1st, 2021 - 112 comments
Happy new year everyone.
Saionara to 2020 and welcome 2021. May it be even better.
Today is the day MPs will start to think about the year ahead. With a stonking mandate and a possible once in a lifetime event, a majority MMP government what should it do?
Simon Wilson has written this very prescient slightly tongue in cheek article published in today’s Herald thinking about the subject. It is a must read.
As he says why not cancel a few motorway projects, they will become irrelevant as we head towards a post carbon post car society anyway. Why not build light rail now, feed the circular economy by using the powers of the state to fund local projects, improve education, and reduce poverty by making sure that everyone has enough to live on.
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