Day: 23 February 2010

Roger Douglas youth rates bill an attack on workers

The Mar­itime Union of New Zealand has poured scorn on a bill intro­duced to Par­lia­ment by ACT MP Roger Dou­glas to rein­tro­duce youth rates.
The Min­i­mum Wage (Mit­i­ga­tion of Youth Unem­ploy­ment) Amend­ment Bill was drawn from the Mem­bers’ bills bal­lot yes­ter­day, and the Union is urg­ing the Gov­ern­ment to dis­tance itself from it.