Creative solution needed for employment issue of our times

Creative solution needed for employment issue of our times
Brooke van Velden wants certainty in contracting relationships. (Image: Mark Mitchell)
Maria Slade
Act Party deputy leader Brooke van Velden is admirable in many ways.Her dogged pounding of the pavements of the Tāmaki electorate in Auckland until she stormed the National Party bastion at the 2023 election was genuinely impressive.No less commendable is her steadfast sartorial commitment to Act fuchsia pink.If, as Workplace Relations and Safety Minister, she has been applying the same rigour to what is shaping up as the defining employment issue of our times, it is not evident.‘Status quo’Act’s coalition agreement with Natio...

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