Robots will make your coffee, Labour conference hears
By Pattrick Smellie March 24 (BusinessDesk) - Robots will replace baristas in cafes as part of a coming wave of job losses in service industries that will occur "at an unprecedented rate" as a massive jump in productivity caused by digital technology takes hold in the world ec...
TPP 'atrocious', Reich tells Labour future of work conference
By Pattrick Smellie March 23 (BusinessDesk) - In comments that raised a cheer from many of the approximately 200 Labour Party members, trade unionists, economists and businesspeople attending the Labour Party's two Future of Work conference, former Clinton era US Labor Secreta...
Labour forced to clarify universal basic income 'not party policy'
By Pattrick Smellie March 23 (BusinessDesk) - The Labour Party's Future of Work conference saw the party leadership forced to insist that discussion of a universal basic income did not constitute party policy, which is "still some way away." Labour published a background pa...
Labour looks to 'limited trial' of universal basic income
By Pattrick Smellie March 23 (BusinessDesk) - The Labour Party is signalling major reform of the social welfare system that it founded, saying it will investigate "new models of income security for New Zealand, including considering a limited trial of a universal basic income....
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