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| Pickers win wage battle |
| A company that paid vineyard workers as little as $2 an hour has lost a legal battle over unpaid wages.Six workers have been awarded backpay after the Department of Labour took a case against New Zealand Vines Ltd to the Employment... |
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Published: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 05:00 a.m. |
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| $20K extra in overtime |
| A workaholic police dispatcher earned $20,000 in overtime last year.The civilian employee who handles 111 calls at the Wellington communications centre was paid a regular wage of $70,000 to $80,000. He worked an extra 300 hours... |
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Published: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 05:00 a.m. |
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| Matt McCarten : Your staff always seem to be on the bosses' side |
| Dear Police Commissioner Howard Broad, Why do the police always take the bosses' side in an industrial dispute?It seems whenever my union, Unite, is trying to help a group of workers, your uniformed staff can't wait to help... |
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Published: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 05:00 a.m. |
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| Hooters staff sue for work violations |
| Around 1000 Hooters workers are suing the company for work and wage violations, saying they were forced to buy their own uniforms and work without pay.Attorneys representing the former and current employees of five Hooters restaurants... |
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Published: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:09 p.m. |
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| Minimum wage close to highest since late 1970s |
| New Zealand's minimum wage is still close to the highest it has been, as a proportion of the average wage, since the late 1970s.It is also the second-highest of any developed country in relation to the median wage, although well... |
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Published: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:00 a.m. |
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| Minimum wage - the $15 question |
| FOR $15 Ryan Poitoa resents getting paid less than his mates doing the same job beside him.Poitoa, 17, is one of the 150 people who got work when a Countdown supermarket opened in Manukau.He reckons he was picked out of... |
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Published: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:00 a.m. |
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