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Pollies: How are small businesses faring after latest lockdown?

Published: Sept. 9, 2020, 2:41 a.m.

The Labour Party's leader says it should be cheaper for businesses to provide contactless payment services.
Regulating merchant service fees is one plank of the party's small business election policy announced today.
Jacinda Ardern says people are looking for safe ways to buy during the pandemic - using things like payWave, but she says companies found bank fees prohibitively expensive.
She says some estimates claim our retailers pay 50 percent more than their Australian counterparts.
The promises comes as figures showed a quarter of workers have expressed fears they may lose their job in the next 12 months, according to a question asked by StatsNZ in its latest Household Labour Force Survey.
The survey of employed people in the June 2020 quarter showed 7 per cent felt there was a high or almost certain chance of losing their job or business within the next 12 months.
At a national level this represented 185,000 workers.
A further 18 per cent (representing 468,000 workers) felt there was a medium chance of losing their job.
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