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    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...HEWX5WVDDEGRY/
    Act's David Seymour meets angry Northland courgette grower about worker shortage.

    Ardern said there wasn't a shortage. "We have the people. We just need to get them to the right place."
    She said there were 6000 foreign workers still in New Zealand from last season. "We want to make sure we are redeploying them across the country." She said work was under way to do that.
    There were also 14,000 people on a working holiday who had their visas extended, she said.

    Heap pays minimum wage of $18.90 an hour plus 8 per cent holiday pay for those starting out in the job. In the past, he has paid workers with experience and skill $23 an hour plus holiday pay.
    It means he needs workers who will work seven days a week, 14 hours a day, when the courgettes are growing.
    "For seasonal work, you're either all in or you miss the boat. If you're all in, you're grossing $3000 a fortnight."
    What's more, those harvesting the plant are operating at ground level. It's leg-aching, back-breaking work to which, Heap says, New Zealand workers are unsuited.
    "It comes down to stamina. [Local workers] just don't have it. And you've got to pay attention to detail and have pride in your work. This is what RSE workers bring. They are committed.

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    So what are solutions for people who want to work but cannot find an employer to employ them?

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    Quote Originally Posted by artemis View Post
    So what are solutions for people who want to work but cannot find an employer to employ them?
    Work and Income offer help and courses, and can refer people to private training providers who run courses or work with people individually e.g. The Auckland Chamber of Commerce offer work readiness programmes. https://www.chamberemployment.co.nz/

    Workbridge and Choices NZ (IHC) offer help to disabled people to find work.

    But for some people especially as they get older the reality is they stay on Jobseeker for years until they qualify for NZ Superannuation, which is a depressing prospect. Unemployment is often detrimental to wellbeing.

    https://workandincome.govt.nz/work/t...nce/index.html
    We offer programmes to help you get ready for work and can help with training and work experience.
    What's available


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    Quote Originally Posted by couta1 View Post
    I would disagree with you about the least manipulative politician bit, she exercises a subtle control of the populous, she is basically a new age communist ie the old lie in a new package.
    I don’t know about calling her a new age communist, but whatever you call it most New Zealanders like her style of leadership and voted accordingly for her and for Labour. They liked the sense of community she created by saying we are all in this together and the team of five million. People really like the collective approach she offered to fight covid.

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    Quote Originally Posted by moka View Post
    Work and Income offer help and courses, and can refer people to private training providers who run courses or work with people individually e.g. The Auckland Chamber of Commerce offer work readiness programmes. ....
    Still need employers to hire them.

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    J A is undoubtedly a leader for the times. Now, let's see some action to follow those "inspiring" words!
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    Quote Originally Posted by macduffy View Post
    J A is undoubtedly a leader for the times. Now, let's see some action to follow those "inspiring" words!
    What happened to her eloquent promises in 2017 on housing?

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/pm-jacinda-ardern-on-house-prices-it-just-cannot-keep-increasing-at-the-rate-that-is/CCIRZPUJIW3FXYPCTQK6A7JZNI/

    Incapable of delivering anything because she is clearly all talk and no substance.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Balance View Post
    What happened to her eloquent promises in 2017 on housing?

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/pm-jac...YPCTQK6A7JZNI/

    Incapable of delivering anything because she is clearly all talk and no substance.
    Yes, I know, Balance. But let's give her a fresh start now, without the leg-irons of NZ First and you-know-who.

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    Quote Originally Posted by macduffy View Post
    Yes, I know, Balance. But let's give her a fresh start now, without the leg-irons of NZ First and you-know-who.
    Well, so far she has NO solution to the housing crisis but has no one to blame so let's see what is her fresh start.

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...FCOQEG3JOUWQQ/

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    "It was fascinating watching the Prime Minister spinning her way through the latest news on house price inflation this week.

    On the back of a 20 per cent annual increase in median house prices she indicated lots of concern. But she stopped short of identifying any culprits or any new solutions to what is now clearly an asset price bubble that bears little relationship with what is happening in the real economy.

    It is interesting how far the current government's rhetoric has come since opposition days when housing was "in crisis" and people with "Chinese-sounding names" were preventing "normal" kiwis from buying houses."

    "It is a big irony that government policies that often seek to boost the fortunes of the low paid end up helping to trap them in a hand to mouth existence, with no way to break the cycle and get on the home ownership ladder."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Balance View Post
    Well, so far she has NO solution to the housing crisis but has no one to blame so let's see what is her fresh start.

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...FCOQEG3JOUWQQ/

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    "It was fascinating watching the Prime Minister spinning her way through the latest news on house price inflation this week.

    On the back of a 20 per cent annual increase in median house prices she indicated lots of concern. But she stopped short of identifying any culprits or any new solutions to what is now clearly an asset price bubble that bears little relationship with what is happening in the real economy.

    It is interesting how far the current government's rhetoric has come since opposition days when housing was "in crisis" and people with "Chinese-sounding names" were preventing "normal" kiwis from buying houses."

    "It is a big irony that government policies that often seek to boost the fortunes of the low paid end up helping to trap them in a hand to mouth existence, with no way to break the cycle and get on the home ownership ladder."
    That last sentence should also be seen in the light of Labour holding the Maori seats for most of the last 90 years. Almost every measure shows that to have been a complete disaster for Maori people.

    Trouble is, Ardern is nimble and cynical enough to jump ship before the **** really hits the fan. UN, Meghan Markle, Michelle Obama, here she comes! Oh she'll be so kind and empathetic having wasted 10s of billions of our money and consigned our grandchildren to impoverishment. But she did it with a smile and that's what really counts.

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