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![Cost of living spirals up](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Cost of living spirals up
A Herald on Sunday investigation finds price rises of many basic items have gone through the roof.
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School support staff eye pay deal
School support staff are attending union meetings over the next two weeks to vote on a new work deal, including a pay rise.
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Cost of sleepover decision $500m plus - Ryall
Paying overnight staff to sleep will cost more than $500 million over three years and changing the law may be considered, Health Minister Tony Ryall says.
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<i>Steve Mackenzie:</i> Why surcharges are not newsworthy
Don't like surcharges? Vote with your feet, says Restaurant Association chief executive Steve Mackenzie.
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Surcharge confusion stretches to 4th day
Customers claim businesses are being greedy in adding surcharges on days not officially holidays.
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MPs get pay rise for Christmas
Members of Parliament have just got an early Christmas present - a 1.4 per cent pay increase plus an extra $2000 to make up for the scrapped international airfares rebate - in the latest review in MPs' salaries.
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Payroll fraud accountant sentenced
A businessman who manipulated the company payroll to give himself a $10,000 payrise, has been sentenced to 200 hours' community work.
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Meat workers pay not docked - CEO
Silver Ferns Farms has hit back at complaints that workers at its Te Aroha plant had their pay deducted for observing a two-minute silence to remember the Pike River miners.
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NZ women doing well but could be better - report
NZ women still struggle to gain leadership roles and suffer from high levels of domestic violence, a report says.
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Pay cut for two-minute silence
Staff at a North Island freezing works had their pay cut for the official two-minute silence to remember the 29 miners killed in the Pike River mine.
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Calls for opencast mine at Pike River
Grey District Mayor Tony Kokshoorn is calling for Pike River to be made into an opencast coal mine, amid efforts to keep the 114 skilled miners made redundant today on the West Coast.