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Kirk Hope: Business NZ CEO says driving wage rates up to boost productivity up won't work

Published: Oct. 25, 2022, 7:27 p.m.

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Business New Zealand is poking holes in the proposed Fair Pay Agreements legalisation.

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The rules mean if a thousand employees, or 10 percent of a workforce, agree to start the collective bargaining process, that process is automatically triggered.

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The Fair Pay Agreements legislation is expected to pass its third reading in Parliament later today.

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Business New Zealand Chief Executive Kirk Hope told Mike Hosking driving wage rates up to boost productivity up won\'t work.

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He says the threshold to trigger the agreement is too low.

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