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Uniform Conditions Helps Unions Hurts Low-Skilled
Monday, 26 January 2004, 8:50 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable
A new report by the Australian Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) highlights how union-driven changes to employment law can have particularly harsh effects for low-skilled workers, New Zealand Business Roundtable executive director Roger Kerr said today. More >>
Antitrust Policy Found to be of Little Benefit
Friday, 23 January 2004, 11:13 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable
An important study just published in the respected Journal of Economic Perspectives should be of interest to all those involved in competition policy in New Zealand, Roger Kerr, executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, said today. More >>
Telecommunications Unbundling Decision
Wednesday, 24 December 2003, 11:36 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable
"The Commerce Commission's decision not to recommend generalised unbundling of telecommunications services is a big improvement on its draft determination", Roger Kerr, executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, said today. More >>
Reducing Tax Barriers for Non-Residents
Tuesday, 23 December 2003, 2:05 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
The New Zealand Business Roundtable supports government moves to reduce tax barriers to international recruitment, but would like to see more attention paid to keeping wealth-producing New Zealanders in this country. More >>
Retirement Income Report 2003
Monday, 22 December 2003, 11:02 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable
"The Periodic Report Group has missed an opportunity to make a useful contribution to the debate about long-term retirement income policy", the executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, Roger Kerr, said today. More >>
Campaign Against Lomborg Is Discredited
Thursday, 18 December 2003, 4:16 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
Environmental activists in New Zealand should be among those who apologise to Danish scientist and author of The Skeptical Environmentalist, Bjørn Lomborg, after he was cleared of accusations of scientific dishonesty, New Zealand Business Roundtable ... More >>
Government Must Abandon Failed Policies
Thursday, 18 December 2003, 12:49 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable
"The projections for the economy in the Budget Policy Statement show that the government's growth strategy is failing," Roger Kerr, executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable said today. More >>
Auckland Transport Package Pulls Up Short
Friday, 12 December 2003, 3:08 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
"The government's transport package pulls up well short of what is necessary to address Auckland 's woeful transport problems", the executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, Roger Kerr, said today. "It has not addressed ... More >>
NZBR More Time to Consider ERA Changes
Friday, 12 December 2003, 3:04 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
The Business Roundtable today supported a call from Business New Zealand for more time to make submissions on the Employment Relations Law Reform Bill. More >>
Myers Media Scholarship Winners Announced
Friday, 12 December 2003, 11:50 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable
The second NZBR Douglas Myers Media Scholarship has been jointly awarded to National Radio transport reporter, Jane O'Loughlin, and political editor for the Christchurch Press, Colin Espiner. More >>
Top Half of the OECD Goal Forgotten
Thursday, 4 December 2003, 6:47 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
"Government changes to the Employment Relations Act (ERA) are not the 'Christmas present for workers' claimed by the Green Party, but a lump of coal in a stocking for those who wish to see New Zealand climb into the top half of the OECD," ... More >>
Proper Debate on Holidays Legislation Needed
Wednesday, 26 November 2003, 4:50 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
The New Zealand Business Roundtable came out today in support of the National Party and ACT New Zealand position that the four weeks' holiday provision in the Holidays Bill should have been the subject of a proper select committee process. More >>
Don't Walk Over Property Rights
Wednesday, 26 November 2003, 4:48 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
Proposals to increase walking access to private property are coercive, unprincipled and amount to an erosion of private property rights, New Zealand Business Roundtable executive director Roger Kerr said today. More >>
What Treasury & RBNZ Should Tell the Finance Min.
Tuesday, 25 November 2003, 5:37 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
"There is a raft of competitiveness-improving measures which the Treasury and the Reserve Bank should identify in response to Dr Cullen's request for advice on how to reduce exchange-rate pressures on exporters", the executive director ... More >>
Corrections Bill Proposals Ideological Nonsense
Monday, 17 November 2003, 11:14 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable
"The government's plans to end New Zealand's sole private prison management contract and make it illegal for the private sector to run prisons are driven simply by ideology and the interests of public sector unions", Michael Whittaker, CEO ... More >>
New Zealand First Initiative Welcome
Wednesday, 12 November 2003, 6:13 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
The New Zealand Business Roundtable welcomed New Zealand First's initiative on direct democracy today. More >>
Lawyers and Conveyancers Bill is Not Real Reform
Thursday, 6 November 2003, 5:32 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
The Lawyers and Conveyancers Bill is overly prescriptive and should be reconsidered, the New Zealand Business Roundtable has told parliament. More >>
NZBR Submission On Energy & Climate Change Bill
Tuesday, 4 November 2003, 2:37 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
- This submission on the Resource Management (Energy and Climate Change) Amendment Bill (the Bill) is made by the New Zealand Business Roundtable (NZBR), an organisation comprising primarily chief executives of major New Zealand business firms. The purpose ... More >>
OECD Statistics Confirm Post-Reform Turnaround
Thursday, 30 October 2003, 1:39 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
"New data from the OECD show that criticisms of New Zealand 's economic performance in the 1990s are wildly astray", Roger Kerr , executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, said today. More >>
NZBR Welcomes Brash Appointment
Tuesday, 28 October 2003, 1:39 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
New Zealand Business Roundtable chairman Rob McLeod today congratulated National Party leader Dr Don Brash on his election by caucus. More >>
