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Charles Waldegrave: Why lifting the minimum wage to a living wage is the only sensible course
Opinion: Time to lift working households out of poverty and enable them to participate.
Advice warning 9000 jobs could be affected by $20 min wage 'out of date'
The warning 9000 jobs could be affected by boosting minimum wage to $20 is 'out of date'.
Minimum wage rise: 175,000 Kiwis set to get a pay rise of $44 a week from April 1
The Council of Trade Unions says estimates of job losses are 'wrong, wrong, wrong'.
'A period of pay restraint:' Govt to send expectation letter to SOE bosses
The letter will make it clear that the Govt is in a 'period of pay restraint'.
What a supercharged Labour Government means for business
Increasing costs will become a focus during Labour's next term in government.
Mood of the boardroom: Wage subsidy a jobsaver for many
Some sectors have even taken on staff writes Tim McCready.
Nick Mowbray: Abuse of wage subsidy has to stop
Profitable companies should pay back millions in wage subsidies they received.
Study highlights ethnic pay gap in public sector, DHBs
Māori staff at DHBs are 56 times less likely to earn over $100,000.
Kiwis' median weekly incomes fall for the first time
Stats NZ labour market statistics reveal how much Kiwis' earnings have fallen.
MPs' Covid pay cut bites, three months after PM's promise
MPs take a 10 per cent cut while ministers, including PM Ardern, get a 20 per cent cut.
The Watercare boss and his $775,000 salary
Raveen Jaduram earns 30 per cent more than the Auckland Council chief executive.
The $12b question: Who got the wage subsidy?
Herald investigation looks at where $12 billion subsidy went.
St John facing staff cuts, aims to save $30 million
St John is aiming to save $30 million to survive the economic impacts of Covid-19.
Focus Live: Wage subsidy boost - 40,000 more firms to get help
Businesses with a 40 per cent reduction in revenue due to Covid-19 are now eligible for the wage subsidy extension.
Jennifer Ward-Lealand: Kiwi actors were once called 'Mexicans of the South Pacific'
Reigning New Zealander of the Year has shared Kiwi actors' dark reputation.
Teacher aides win historic pay equity deal
Another big step towards equal pay for NZ women and men.
'It's a slap in the face': Who gains and who misses out in Covid-19 income package
New $490-a-week payment may benefit 230,000 people, but some will miss out.
Focus Live: $10.9b paid out in wage subsidies
Finance Minister Grant Roberston says 50,000 businesses have applied for Government loans and so far $10.9b has been paid out in wage subsidies.
Teuila Fuatai: Wage subsidy arithmetic hurts couriers
COMMENT: The subsidy scheme highlights problems with courier contracts.
NZ Couriers claims wage subsidy as drivers' pay takes a hit
Courier companies have been deducting wage subsidy from payments made to drivers.
Early childhood teachers win big pay hike
Early childhood teachers will get big minimum pay rises in the Budget.
Simon Wilson: Why does anyone think it's time for a universal basic income?
COMMENT: With a recession looming, benefit reform has to help, and not make things worse.
'Like KFC with no chicken': Cinemas may not open in level 2
No blockbuster movies means no income, cinemas say.
Revealed: What Ardern, Bloomfield earn and what their pay cuts will be
Prime Minister outlines 20 per cent pay cut for all Government Ministers.
How NZ's wage subsidy scheme compares with other nations
Report by think tank questions whether wage subsidy scheme is fit for purpose.
Lockdown complicates Easter payments for workers
Determining if staff get paid public holidays should be based on Covid-19 patterns: MBIE.
Coronavirus: Hotel workers' wages cut to $585 a week
Hotel workers are being asked to work for only the $585 a week state subsidy.
Nash: Raising minimum wage is the right thing to do
MP Stuart Nash says the government does have a plan to get out of lock-down.
Coronavirus: Act leader David Seymour calls for cut to MPs' pay
Seymour says a pay cut over three months would show leadership to the private sector.
Kerry Davies: Recruitment firm's 'disconnected' perspective
RIGHT OF REPLY: Workers fight back. Does any worker really choose freely to be paid less?
Bonuses worth $450,000 scrapped at Auckland Council arm
Only last June, Panuku's board agreed to keep paying staff bonuses.
Letters: Strategies to put spotlight on shame
In the claustrophobic head space, shame can spiral into self-destructive behaviour.
National moots cancelling minimum wage increase if elected
National is looking into putting a stop to a $20 an hour minimum wage, if elected.