BUDGET 2021: Unemployment insurance on the cards

BUDGET 2021: Unemployment insurance on the cards
Paul McBeth
The government is working with Business New Zealand and the Council of Trade Unions to design an insurance scheme covering the bulk of a recently unemployed person’s earnings, based on the largely successful ACC workplace scheme.Finance minister Grant Robertson said the government is working with the worker and business lobbies to design a scheme and will be consulting certain groups in the coming months on what that should look like before going to the wider public.The Labour government campaigned on introducing such a scheme last year a...