Businesses are ambitious for New Zealand’s success and want a better policies to help achieve it, BusinessNZ says. BusinessNZ has ‘taken the pulse’ of the business community and published Election Priorities for a better future – the thoughts of large and small New Zealand businesses in the run-up to this...
The latest BusinessNZ Planning Forecast reveals that while things might look favourable at first, there are several factors which are still cause for economic concern. Both Treasury and the Reserve Bank have predicted the economy will go into a shallow recession by the second half of next year. BusinessNZ’s forecast...
It is positive to see Government recognise the extreme skill shortages affecting business with changes to immigration settings today, says BusinessNZ Chief Executive Kirk Hope. “Pushing out accreditation will save an estimated $30 million in compliance costs next year for business. “It is positive to see vocational level skills recognised...
BusinessNZ will not be the default negotiator for Fair Pay Agreements but will provide assistance to employers who are required to negotiate an FPA with unions. BusinessNZ Advocacy Director Catherine Beard says the organisation will not take the Government’s monetary offer to do so – instead, the BusinessNZ Network will...
Increasing the wage thresholds for international skills and talent is unnecessary and will feed inflation, says BusinessNZ Chief Executive Kirk Hope. “In the current environment of extreme skill shortages, high inflation, negative net migration and ongoing global supply chain constraints, further wage pressure on employers announced today does not support...
The Government has failed to listen to business concerns and has doubled down on the worst elements of the Fair Pay Agreements Bill, says BusinessNZ. The Fair Pay Agreements Bill has now been reported back from select committee prior to it being passed by Parliament. While under select committee consideration,...
Skills and labour shortages were the top business concern of 102 businesses surveyed by the BusinessNZ Network in September.
...The Government’s proposal to introduce compulsory wage bargaining through Fair Pay Agreements has put New Zealand on a Top 40 list for possible prosecution by the International Labour Organisation.
...BusinessNZ says the findings by the ILO regarding the New Zealand Government’s planned Fair Pay Agreements legislation have been misinterpreted by some commentators. The Conclusion reached by the ILO’s Committee on the Application of Standards requested the New Zealand Government to reconsider its Fair Pay Agreements Bill to ensure it...
