ELECTION 2020: Nats promise return to Key-era labour laws, WorkSafe review

ELECTION 2020: Nats promise return to Key-era labour laws, WorkSafe review
Paul McBeth
The National Party will bring back the industrial laws it introduced in the past decade and review WorkSafe as part of a plan to make life easier for small business owners. Rolling out an array of familiar policies, leader Judith Collins outlined her party’s small business policy, which primarily focuses on cutting regulatory costs. Among the grab-bag of promises is a return to industrial law put in place by National under John Key’s administration. Employers and staff would be able to negotiate terms of breaks, 90-day probation periods w...

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