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Minister Damien English announces appointment of new Ministerial Panel of Adjudicators   The Minister for Business, Employment and Retail, Damien English TD, has today appointed an additional 17 members to the Ministerial Panel of Adjudicators under the Construction Contracts Act, 2013. On 7 March 2020, the Minister re-appointed 19 members of the previous panel who had re-applied to serve on the adjudication panel. This now brings the total composition of the panel to five barristers, six solicitors, six architects, seven engineers, and 12 quantity surveyors. The Minister is ...

Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury: While the PSA and CTU attack the Labour Government over freezing 100k gold plated bureaucrat wages, the big story last...

While the PSA and CTU attack the Labour Government over freezing 100k gold plated bureaucrat wages, the big story last week was the announcement of the Fair Pay Agreements which will effectively see universal union membership. The main reason why wages are so depressed in NZ can be traced back to the 1991 Independent Contracts Act which de-unionised the workforce and broke the back of the union movement. Barely 10% of the NZ workforce are in Unions and without their collective bargaining power, wages and conditions have slipped backwards. This has punished Māori workers most. The median Māo...

Oliver Hartwich: NZ's labour markets have worked well, why overthrow them? 11 May, 2021 05:35 AM 7 minutes to read Workplace Relations Minister Michael Wood. Photo / Mark Mitchell NZ Herald OPINION: The Prime Minister is delivering on her main promise. Before the 2017 election, Jacinda Ardern promised to lead a "transformational" government. But only now are we seeing what she meant. Ironically, the man whose support made Ardern Prime Minister in the first place later undermined all her reform ambitions. Winston Peters prevented a capital gains tax, stopped hate speech legis...

COMMENT | How to manage vaccine liability in Malaysia A - COMMENT | Public confidence is crucial for the success of Malaysia’s Covid-19 immunisation programme. To build public confidence in the vaccine, we must answer the question of “what happens if there’s an adverse event from the vaccine?”. We would like to explain the situation and propose a framework to manage liability arising from the rare occasions of an adverse event. For a start, we would like to firmly state that the currently available data for the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine shows a strong safety profile. The risk of a serio...