NZNO members are holding stop work meetings to consider industrial action for better pay and higher staff-to-patient ratios. More than 1000 former international rugby players are taking legal action against sports governing bodies on claims they suffered brain injuries during their careers. After spending $23m but failing to modernise the births, deaths and marriages registry, the Department of Internal Affairs officials are having another go.
Union coverage
- NZNO: Nursing union members hold stop work meetings over stalled pay talks
- Unions Canterbury: Unions protest pay equity changes outside post-Budget business lunch
Employment
- Seymour pay changes add more anxiety for ECE sector
- More than 1000 former rugby players join concussion lawsuit
- Wellington employment market 'pretty Hunger Games', jobseeker says
Politics
- Children's Ministry had overdue payments, lacked evidence for decisions
- Internal Affairs to have another go at modernising births, deaths and marriages registry
- 'We have massive problems with regulation' – Seymour defends Regulatory Standards Bill
- Wellington brothel madam speaks on PM's former press secretary's alleged recording of sex workers
- Christopher Luxon demands answers as press secretary Michael Forbes resigns
- RNZ Reid Research poll: Majority of Kiwis support social media ban for kids
- Labour buoyed by latest showing in RNZ / Reid Research poll
- Two polls provide different results, but some similarities
Te Ao Māori
- 'Right and proper': Rotorua council agrees to return land to whānau
- Hawke's Bay iwi Ngāti Kahungunu protest sale of ancestral mountain
- This year's Te Matatini biggest yet
Economics
- Call to rethink tax on KiwiSaver
- NZ's natural gas supply running out faster than thought
- $14m sought for five solar farms to power hydrogen fuel production
- Global alarms rise as China's critical mineral export curbs take hold
Opinion
- Budget 2025's scattergun 'Investment Boost' won't fix low productivity
- How employees are set to pay the price of new KiwiSaver contributions
- Changes to freshwater policy written with, and for polluters
- Labour and National locked in a race to irrelevance
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