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Industry News
Ports of Auckland – Facilitator’s Report
Alistair Dumbleton, the member of the Employment Relations Authority facilitating the Ports of Auckland collective bargaining, has released a report. Given the key issues, particularly the right of the Port to contract out, it’s anyone’s guess when that process may reach a conclusion.
Secondary Teachers Settlement Ratified
In the Public Sector low settlements seem to be continuing with a two and a half year deal for secondary teachers being ratified this week. It provides for average increases of 1.14%, 1.02% and 0.5% for the last 6 months of the term.
Public Holiday Entitlements
The public holidays situation is quite straight forward this year with 25/26 December and 1/2 January falling on weekdays.
Minimum Wage Review
What the Government does with the next review will be interesting given the low CPI and other economic factors. The Government’s practice has been to introduce annual increases at around CPI with a more significant adjustment every fourth year.
ERA changes delayed
The Government’s planned amendments to the Employment Relations Act are expected to be introduced to Parliament by the end of the year, but the effective date has been delayed until “the second half of 2013”.
Quarterly Employment Survey data
In the June quarter the unemployment rate was 6.8%. Despite concerns about several high profile redundancies, indications are that job growth may have kept pace, The seasonally adjusted number of filled jobs rose 0.3% from the June quarter to the September quarter and the latest unemployment data is due on 8 November.
CPI at 13 year low
The CPI rose 0.3% for the September 2012 quarter and 0.8% in the year to the September 2012 quarter, which is the smallest annual movement since a 0.5% increase in the year to the December 1999 quarter.
Labour Cost Index increases
In the September 2012 quarter, salary and wage rates (including overtime) rose 0.5%. In the year to the September 2012 quarter: