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MIQ space freed up for refugees, students, construction industry and seasonal workers Newshub 5 days ago Zane Small, Michael Morrah © Image - Newshub / Zane Small; Video - Newshub Watch: 500 extra spaces will be made available every two weeks. Managed isolation space is being freed up to allow more refugees, international students, construction workers and recognised seasonal employees (RSEs) into New Zealand.  COVID-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins said on Monday that trans-Tasman quarantine-free travel has freed up more rooms in managed isolation and quarantine (MIQ)...

But Collins isn't taking Ardern at her word.  "It is important that just because the Prime Minister said this, that we should question that - what she says - because she also said that there would be no new taxes, that they weren't going to have a capital gains tax, but they effectively did that," she told Magic Talk on Monday.  "We had Grant Robertson, the Finance Minister, saying no changes to the bright-line test, and lo and behold, a few months later guess what? There are changes.   "I simply look at the evidence, and the evidence is department after department, agency after a...

The Government is drafting legislation, which will be introduced later this year, and is expected to pass in 2022.  When it comes into force, any union will be able to initiate the FPA process as long as they can demonstrate support from either 10 percent or 1000 employees in the proposed industry or occupation.  FPAs can also be initiated via a "public interest test" in an industry or occupation where employment issues exist, such as low pay or limited bargaining power.  All employees will be covered by FPAs, even if they aren't already part of a union.  Both employees and employers cove...

But National's workplace relations spokesperson Scott Simpson fears the Labour Government is taking New Zealand back to an era of industrial action in the 1970s, when strikes were at an all-time high.  "This is compulsory wage controls. It is unionism gone universal," Simpson says. "The National Party will repeal these recycled National Awards." National Awards were based on the principle that basic terms and conditions were best established by the collective workforce. They laid out minimum wages and conditions across industries, with a Court of Arbitration settling disputes.  Strikes were...

It proposes a Māori Health Authority and Māori wards in councils, which the Government has acted on. It also suggests separate court and justice systems, Māori ownership over the foreshore and seabed a Māori Parliament or Upper House. In a speech to National Party supporters over the weekend, Collins called for a public conversation about the proposals in the report before any more of the recommendations are implemented. "If Labour believes that the Treaty intended two systems for everything, and that this is the model we want in 2021, then this is a fundamental change to our soci...