PSA calls for retraction of Workplace Relations Minister Brooke van Velden's ERA comments

PSA calls for retraction of Workplace Relations Minister Brooke van Velden's ERA comments
Brooke van Velden told BusinessDesk business had lost confidence in the ERA. (Image: NZME)
Dileepa Fonseka
The Public Service Association has called on Workplace Relations Minister Brooke van Velden to retract her comments to BusinessDesk about the way she thought new appointments might change the Employment Relations Authority. In a statement, the Public Service Association (PSA) said Van Velden’s comments about the need to change the composition of the Employment Relations Authority (ERA) were an “outrageous breach of judicial independence”.“The PSA is calling on Van Velden to publicly retract her comments and commit t...

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