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New Zealand’s government will soon release findings of reports and legal advice regarding allegations that the New Zealand Special Air Service (NZSAS) were responsible for sending prisoners to the Afghan intelligence service, the National...
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The Council of Trade Unions (CTU) has uploaded two new videos onto its Youtube channel. Both tell the stories of young women who lost their jobs under the 90-day “probationary employment” law which allows workers to be fired with no reason given,...
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New Zealanders love Facebook. Many will talk about how much they hate it, but the numbers show otherwise. One in four New Zealanders is a member of Facebook, for those aged 25-34, its one in three, and for those 15-24, its nearly three in four. Much of...
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Richard Trumka, president of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organisations (AFL-CIO) has indefinitely postponed a visit to New Zealand that was due to take place in Febuary. He did so at the request of his New Zealand...
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Information obtained under the Official Information Act (OIA) by the anonymous blogger behind ‘No Right Turn‘ has revealed the organisations in New Zealand that are using prison labour under the Corrections Inmate Employment scheme (CIE)....
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The UN special rapporteur on indigenous human rights, Professor James Anaya has been in New Zealand reviewing the conditions of the country’s indigenous Maori population. While many of his comments are positive, Radio Australia reports that ...
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New Zealand’s Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) scheme is up for review next month. The scheme allows New Zealand employers in the horticulture and viticulture industries to employ workers from participating Pacific Island countries on seasonal...
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Since last weekends announcement that the government is going to extend a 90 day probationary employment law that currently applies to small businesses to all businesses (along side a host of other changes to industrial relations law) a torrent of...
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Hundreds of workers are turning out to protests this weekend over changes the government is going to make to industrial relations law. The changes were due to be announced at the National Party conference over the weekend, but were leaked to media on...
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Ill-considered, unethical, and a breach of international law. That’s the view of the Refugee Council of New Zealand on Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s plan for a regional processing centre in East Timor to process asylum seekers...
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