National - FFS!

[macduffy]

What's your source for that Panda?

A fertile imagination?

[Panda-NZ-]

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...usiness-policy

plus a kiwisaver raid thrown in too

[artemis]

A fertile imagination?

Comprehension fail?

[Zaphod]

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...usiness-policy

plus a kiwisaver raid thrown in too

That is pure spin. Removing breaks is not what is being proposed, nor is KiwiSaver being raided. I'd suggest reading the policy document.

[tim23]

Lunchtime and rest breaks will be axed under Judy.
Sounds like a plan to employ less rather than more if the same work needs to be done?

Will her friends Mike and Heather ask how she will pay for her tax credits and other "unfunded" goodies to large business.

I think the last Tory govt tried a raid on rest breaks...Mike, Heather, Barry & Kate what a self indulgent talk fest that would be at a dinner party!

[westerly]

That is pure spin. Removing breaks is not what is being proposed, nor is KiwiSaver being raided. I'd suggest reading the policy document.

According to their fact sheet: "We will repeal the changes made by Labour to the Employment
Relations Act " and $20000 can be used from your Kiwi Saver to start a new business.

westerly

[dobby41]

That is pure spin. Removing breaks is not what is being proposed, nor is KiwiSaver being raided. I'd suggest reading the policy document.

Help us out here and tell us.

[Balance]

Help us out here and tell us.

Look at how the '4 legs good, 2 legs better' brigade is avoiding the other thread Labour/NZ First Government like the plague to avoid the awkward questions posed by jonu?

What are your thoughts on the past week for Ardern's government dobby41?

Are you comfortable with the spending on the Green school?

Has Ardern been telling fibs about the day 3 tests?

Why didn't she extend the wage subsidy for the extra lockdown period as earlier promised? (If it is too hard why did she promise it?)

What are your thoughts on the mysterious silence on Ihumatao?

[Bjauck]

According to their fact sheet: "We will repeal the changes made by Labour to the Employment
Relations Act " and $20000 can be used from your Kiwi Saver to start a new business.

westerly

National have never liked KiwiSaver. They would prefer the wealthier to continue to treat our expensive residential housing as their pension schemes, enjoying minimal taxable income and untaxed leveraged capital gains. The less wealthy it would to continue to demonise if they ask for a state pension that would cover accommodation costs as they were continually priced out of home ownership (which will remain the only way to have security of accommodation tenure under National) by investors looking for the most tax efficient returns.

Meanwhile NZ companies would continue to relocate funding and ownership to the Australian financial markets as KiwiSaver funds get raided with a National government keen to create more and more exemptions?

National should create a public fund to lend money to help unemployed kiwis, instead of allowing the pension scheme to be eroded.

[Zaphod]

According to their fact sheet: "We will repeal the changes made by Labour to the Employment
Relations Act " and $20000 can be used from your Kiwi Saver to start a new business.

westerly

Exactly - repealing the changes made by Labour would mean that the exact times of rest and meal break aren't mandated by legislation. More to the point though, the assertion that "Lunchtime and rest breaks will be axed under Judy" is demonstrably false.
Allowing $20K to be used from a KiwiSaver account to start a business is not "a kiwisaver raid thrown in too".