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Wednesday, 5 May 2021, 1:45 pm The Association of Salaried Medical Specialists Toi Mata Hauora says the Government’s ongoing public sector pay restraint is a kick in the teeth to senior doctors and dentists who keep core health services going and have kept New Zealanders safe and cared for during the Covid-19 pandemic. In a press release on the Government’s Workforce Policy Statement, Public Service Minister Chris Hipkins has ruled out pay increases for those earning over $100,000 for the next three years. ASMS Executive Director Sarah Dalton says senior doctors and dentists will find i...

The government’s 'bombshell' announcement of a three-year public sector wage freeze was dropped at the very moment the Police Association sat down with Police to begin negotiations on the 2021 payround. Association President Chris Cahill says ...

Teachers are going on strike in Devon today in row over pensions Industrial action is being taken in light of proposals put forward by Mount Kelly concerning the workforce's pension provision The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now Never miss a big story in Plymouth again with our daily newslettersInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign me up! When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy Notice. Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee ourpr...

A key point is what Canada proposes to do with the revenue from the carbon tax. It's going to be divvied up evenly among Canadians and rebated back to them. So people with low carbon emissions will be better off, they'll get more back from the rebate than they pay in tax. But the high emitters pay more, preferably a lot more. This is the model used by British Columbia for quite a while now, and it has broad support there. Another key point is that a carbon tax directly targets the behaviour we want to eliminate. None of the monkeying around trying to hide it as something else, or setting up w...

Written By: weka - Date published: 10:37 am, December 12th, 2020 - 68 comments One of the more useful things in recent weeks in the debate about housing is the clarity of Jacinda Ardern’s position, Jacinda Ardern says ‘sustained moderation’ remains the Government’s goal when it comes to house prices, as people ‘expect’ the value of their most valuable asset to keep rising … Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she would like to see small increases in houses prices, acknowledging most people “expect” the valu...