Mentions of Business NZ in New Zealand Parliament debates

Dr PAUL HUTCHISON ... people. The select committee heard three oral submissions, and there were also two other submissions: one from Business New Zealand, and the other from the employers chamber of commerce. IDEA Services pointed out that it was keen to get out of ...

RAHUI KATENE ... Food Workers Union—Ngā Ringa Tōtā—the Public Service Association, and IDEA Services Ltd. I recognise the effort of Business New Zealand and the employers chambers of commerce in taking up the opportunity to present a submission, even under such dire ...

CAROL BEAUMONT ... Business groups, unions, and the wider community recognise this fact, but there is still no plan. Phil O’Reilly from Business New Zealand, who is often very positive about this Government, has said that what the Government has announced so far is helpful ...

GRANT ROBERTSON ... necessarily have to include just scientists, and it does not. Currently it includes someone like Phil O’Reilly from Business New Zealand. He brings an outside perspective. He would not consider himself to be a scientist, I think, by any means, but he has a ...

HILARY CALVERT ... hearings on the foreshore and seabed legislation. One of the submissions that I particularly noticed was one made by Business New Zealand on behalf of 76,000 employers and business groups. It talked, in particular, about the preamble. It talked about what ...

CLARE CURRAN ... that underpinned the Quality Regulation Review. At the time it was launched under the previous Labour Government, Business New Zealand chief executive Phil O’Reilly said that it would help sharpen the focus on what it costs business to comply with new ...

Hon LIANNE DALZIEL ... his comments almost exclusively focused on the role of workplace productivity. I refer back to a joint paper that Business New Zealand and the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions put together on productivity under the previous Government. Under our ...

PESETA SAM LOTU-IIGA ... between the relevant Minister and the commission. It would not include the unions and it would not include Business New Zealand, because it is about getting the terms of reference that are important. I commend this bill to the House. It will ...

Hon LIANNE DALZIEL ... is quite important, yet 13 submissions were received and we heard seven of them. I was very disappointed that Business New Zealand did not want to be heard, because I had asked the select committee clerk to arrange for the Council of Trade Unions and ...

Hon MARYAN STREET ... referring Ministers”—not the commission, I say to the Minister, but the referring Ministers—“must first consult with Business New Zealand and the Council of Trade Unions to ensure that the concept of social partnership is embedded in the work of the ...

PESETA SAM LOTU-IIGA ... be helpful to that. Finally, the amendment that would insert new clause 12(1B) requires Ministers to “consult with Business New Zealand and the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions …”. Again, there is specificity in the clause, but what happens if the New ...

GRANT ROBERTSON ... not chosen to pursue the tripartite work that was going on in the skills area. Obviously, the Skills Strategy, which Business New Zealand and the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions have worked on with the Government, was a successful strategy. It was an ...

Hon LIANNE DALZIEL ... with. The reason I have moved clause 12(1B) is to make sure that it is the referring Ministers who consult with Business New Zealand and the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions when they are setting the terms of reference for an inquiry. There is a ...

Hon LIANNE DALZIEL ... to put pen to paper to say they either support or reject elements of this bill? I was extremely disappointed that Business New Zealand did not even make an oral submission in support of its written submission. In fact, I had spoken to the committee clerk ...

KRIS FAAFOI ... of submissions on this bill from the Employers and Manufacturers Association and also, if I remember correctly, from Business New Zealand. They wanted to impose an amendment to the bill to make sure that for the vote to strike to be successful, the ...

DARIEN FENTON ... open the door to these sorts of provisions, we start to get some bad employers who get some crazy ideas. For example, Business New Zealand and the Employers and Manufacturers Association came along to submit and said that the ballot level should be 75 percent—...

CHARLES CHAUVEL ... is now a member of the International Court of Justice. The court heard submissions from the parties, as well as from Business New Zealand and the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions as interveners. It was one of the last appeals that I had a role in arguing ...

Hon TREVOR MALLARD ... adversely impacting on the employment relationship between employer and union members.” It is fair to say that even Business New Zealand has said that restricting union access is not a priority for it and that it does not receive complaints from employers ...

KEITH LOCKE ... job is that he or she must have a 90-day trial period? If that is the case, then it is not voluntary, particularly if Business New Zealand—and I understand it is doing this—is setting up model contracts that include a 90-day provision. People will not have a ...

CHARLES CHAUVEL ... we are legislating, but it is not clear why this provision is needed. There is no evidence anywhere of abuse. Even Business New Zealand said that this measure was not a high priority for it. It does not receive many complaints from employers about union ...

Hon MARYAN STREET ... approach to all of the significant social questions and economic questions before the country. We engaged with Business New Zealand, we engaged with small businesses, and, in fact, we set up the Small Business Advisory Group. We engaged with the ...

CAROL BEAUMONT ... of other officials. There is not a problem. That was made absolutely clear by officials, and it was made clear by Business New Zealand. This new access provision is purely an ideological thing, but the worry is its effect. It may not be widely used, ...

DARIEN FENTON ... that group. There was a bit of agreement. The ministerial advisory group had people from the Council of Trade Unions, Business New Zealand, and so on, on it. But there were a whole lot of things that they did not agree on. The only thing they agreed on was ...

CAROL BEAUMONT ... example. However, most of them went like this: “Allowing employers to direct when alternative holiday must be taken: Business New Zealand supports the proposed amendment.” Well, that is hardly compelling evidence, is it? It is hardly evidence that there is ...

GRANT ROBERTSON ... The current Government likes to belittle the idea of a strategy. The Skills Strategy was a combined effort by Business New Zealand, the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions, and the Government to plan for having a skilled workforce in New Zealand. ...

Hon MARYAN STREET ... longer stays without bureaucratic trammelling is an important consideration in this closer economic partnership. Business New Zealand business people, who accompanied the Minister on the visit to Hong Kong at the time of the signing of this free-trade ...

DARIEN FENTON ... to provide advice to the Government, and it included representatives from the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions and Business New Zealand. The advisory group recommended options for addressing the gaps in, and issues with, the existing law and policy ...

Hon TREVOR MALLARD ... Group to the Minister of Labour on Restructuring and Redundancy came out with a unanimous recommendation supported by Business New Zealand. Business New Zealand consulted widely with its members and decided that the Government should consider the ...

STUART NASH ... then. Business was closely involved in the review process. Business networks, for example the chambers of commerce, Business New Zealand, the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions, and industry associations have acted as a conduit for business input into the ...

Hon DAVID PARKER ... be provided to the select committee. It was not. I was also disappointed that neither business submitters like Business New Zealand—and I name Business New Zealand not to be pejorative; I value its submission to the select committee—nor any other ...

DARIEN FENTON ... member: unions and the Labour Party sometimes disagree. We do not always agree on everything, just as I hope that Business New Zealand and the National Party do not always agree on everything.

Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE ... for 6 months. She asked whether it had been successful and whether it was logical. Mr O’Reilly, who is the head of Business New Zealand, said this: “The problem with these kinds of programmes is often if you make them too big they turn into a bit of make-wo...

MICHAEL WOODHOUSE ... and that is not just my view or the view of the Government. It is the view of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Business New Zealand, and, more recently, the Tax Working Group, which was pretty critical of the status quo. Labour’s revenue spokesperson,...

SUE MORONEY ... with industry and what it needs in terms of skill shortages and its training needs. This bill takes away the Business New Zealand representation and the union representation from around the table. So the very people who have an intimate knowledge of ...

Dr KENNEDY GRAHAM ... forestry, fishing, and energy—has a vested sectoral interest that is sub-national. Claims advanced by each of Business New Zealand, Federated Farmers, and the Coalition for Climate Change Policy should, with due respect to each institution, be viewed ...

Hon DAVID CUNLIFFE ... at between $21 billion and $42 billion. We see full circle today the Māori Party being sacrificed on the altar of Business New Zealand and Fonterra. That brings me to Fonterra, because word has reached me that Fonterra is none too happy because its ...

Hon PAULA BENNETT ... the Job Summit we had introduced the Job Support Scheme, with the help of the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions and Business New Zealand. We heard the call from community organisations. They were facing a decrease in funding from non-Government sources, ...

Hon Dr NICK SMITH ... account. I also want to make it plain that key stakeholders like the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions and Business New Zealand will have the opportunity for input into that important stocktake process. The stocktake group’s work programme is to ...

HONE HARAWIRA ... to others, to open the door, and to have the conversation, not to say no before the debate has even begun. Today Business New Zealand launched a set of proposals entitled Setting New Zealand Apart, which is a contribution to a national ...

DARIEN FENTON ... Labour introduced, are spot on. Interestingly enough, this proposal has now become one of the 50 suggestions from Business New Zealand about how to improve New Zealand’s productivity—please, for goodness’ sake—along with things like privatising accident ...

DARIEN FENTON ... in the New Zealand Skills Strategy, which was work that was carefully crafted by the Council of Trade Unions, Business New Zealand, and the Industry Training Federation in partnership with the Government. Significant increases in labour productivity ...

Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE ... back to those bad old days. Earlier this month, Prime Minister John Key signalled to an audience of his friends at a Business New Zealand meeting the promised tax cuts would be delayed to some unspecific time in the future. He said New Zealand could not ...

JACINDA ARDERN ... in. From that summit we also had attendees from the Business Roundtable, trade unions, three political parties, Business New Zealand, the New Zealand Retailers Association, the New Zealand University Students Association, industry training organisations,...

TE URUROA FLAVELL ... on greater amounts of bank debt. As I understand it, Lane Walker Rudkin would not have been affected by this bill; Business New Zealand took care of that. I believe this to be the case because the Employers Federation and the Manufacturers Federation—now ...

Hon PETE HODGSON ... just becoming better and better. We ought to acknowledge the role of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, of Business New Zealand, and of the various groups that interact in that process. I refer to, for example, the trade union movement and many ...

DARIEN FENTON ... the air about this strategy. The strategy was carefully worked out between the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions, Business New Zealand, the Industry Training—

Hon TREVOR MALLARD ... by the New Zealand Herald—its rag, its cheer squad—that the bill be sent to the select committee? Business New Zealand suggested that it should go to the select committee to get it improved, but did the Government take any notice of that? ...

Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE ... is no select committee process at all. There is no chance for any public input at all, even though Mr O’Reilly from Business New Zealand, who, as my colleague Lianne Dalziel and other colleagues have alluded to, is probably more sympathetic to the National ...

Hon LIANNE DALZIEL ... is about process. The process in relation to this bill has been nothing short of appalling; it is so bad that even Business New Zealand does not want this bill to go through all stages under urgency, without the opportunity to scrutinise it in a public ...

Hon PAREKURA HOROMIA ... to union support and to the support of anybody else. We have heard continually today that organisations, including Business New Zealand, do not think this bill is a good idea. What I have struggled with in listening to the discussions tonight is the idea ...

Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... from the Labour perspective, is to say this is some deep-dyed plot whereby the National Party is in cahoots with Business New Zealand to ram it through. The problem with that theory is quite simple: Business New Zealand is opposed to ramming this bill ...

Hon LIANNE DALZIEL ... on workplace productivity. It has all of the productivity drivers that have been developed in collaboration between Business New Zealand, the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions, and the Department of Labour. The document refers to building leadership and ...

Hon PETE HODGSON ... towards an emissions trading scheme. That was put into the public arena. The National Party said no to that, and Business New Zealand said no to that, they did not want a carbon charge. The Business Council for Sustainable Development said no to that, ...

CRAIG FOSS ... the unions that contributed to their election fund were in favour of that at the Finance and Expenditure Committee. Business New Zealand was in favour of this at the Finance and Expenditure Committee. In fact, it is something that makes KiwiSaver—and it ...

Hon PAUL SWAIN ... there is always more to do. A key issue I would like Parliament to become more engaged in is the work being led by Business New Zealand and the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions on improving workplace productivity. I was involved in this work as the ...

TE URUROA FLAVELL ... of New Zealand. In this article, the Māori Party candidate for Ikaroa-Rawhiti, Derek Fox, lays down a challenge for Business New Zealand to include more Māori in its organisation, and in the way its policies and strategies are formulated. His argument was ...
... hold up this article from this morning’s Otago Daily Times, headed “Call for Maori involvement with Business NZ”. I would recommend this article to any member of the House with an interest in the future of New Zealand. In this ...

Dr WAYNE MAPP ... has been to ignore business, and to ignore all the parties affected by this legislation. That is why Mr O’Reilly of Business New Zealand can, quite realistically, issue a press release with the headline: “Cynical politics around emissions trading scheme”. ...

TIM GROSER ... a political and legislative Government he would have been well designed to miss. I look at a statement just made by Business New Zealand. I would argue that Business New Zealand is fairly measured in its comments, generally. But it has started to use ...

Hon Dr NICK SMITH ... talks about it being a ban; it is a Clayton’s ban. There are so many outs in this ban that it is exactly what Business New Zealand has today said it is—cynical politics and a political circus. It has said that there has been no listening, and that ...

KATE WILKINSON ... The Minister is fully aware that proposed changes to KiwiSaver have raised concerns amongst many businesses, such as Business New Zealand, the Employers and Manufacturers Association, and many, many others. Yet the Minister arrogantly—and I can only say “arro...

CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON ... thank those outside Parliament—in the Council of Trade Unions and the various unions, in other organisations like Business New Zealand, and in the New Zealand Law Society—for the good work they have done. With those relatively short comments, I indicate ...

DAIL JONES ... society, we came up with a solution that took the matter to the stage where the things the trade union movement and Business New Zealand wanted to do were covered by this bill, rather than by extending it to those various other areas that I had mentioned ...

CHESTER BORROWS ... provides the in-house lawyer’s employer—say, for instance, the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union or Business New Zealand—with easy access to quality and cost-effective legal services for its members. I am pleased to see that with the ...

CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON ... It is extremely important that members of trade unions and members of organisations like the Nurses Organisation, Business New Zealand, and the Hospitality Association have access to lawyers in the employment of those bodies so that they can obtain swift ...

CHARLES CHAUVEL ... select committee, as did Mr Jones, and we heard evidence by invitation from the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions, Business New Zealand, and the New Zealand Law Society. By the agreement of the select committee, submissions were restricted to those three ...

KATE WILKINSON ... the same collective agreement:”. The cooperation that is seen in many fields between the Council of Trade Unions and Business New Zealand is certainly a model that we can also take lessons from. Those legal services also relate to “any claim or action ...

CHARLES CHAUVEL ... legislation, I look forward to National members saying so, but, more important, I look forward to hearing them tell Business New Zealand, to whom they have given assurances as to their support, that that is the case. I certainly hope it is not.

DAIL JONES ... want to see them giving advice on leases. But New Zealand First supports the ability of the trade union movement and Business New Zealand to give advice on employment-related matters. We will support that, and I hope that Labour will, as well. I am ...

CHRIS AUCHINVOLE ... the 42,000 members of the Nurses Organisation—are suddenly deprived of the services they have enjoyed. Similarly, Business New Zealand welcomed and supported this amendment bill, which addresses a current anomaly preventing lawyers with practising ...

MARTIN GALLAGHER ... the Hospitality Standards Institute, Ngāi Tahu, Meat and Wool New Zealand, the National Distribution Union, Zespri, Business New Zealand, the Seafood Industry Council, and the Wellington Chamber of Commerce. Having said that, I acknowledge—and I have ...

SUE BRADFORD ... all the money, work, and commitment that have gone into the Buy Kiwi Made programme on the part of manufacturers, Business New Zealand, retailers, unions, and the Ministry of Economic Development. What a disaster after all the cross-sectoral goodwill and ...

Hon ANNETTE KING ... steering group for the big Waterview Connection project? Who is on that steering group? There are people from Business New Zealand, the Auckland chamber of commerce, and the private sector working with the Government sector to look at the feasibility ...

Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... class="Incorporation">The funding will be used to implement the Skills Strategy, a partnership between Government, Business New Zealand, the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions and the Industry Training Federation.

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DARIEN FENTON ... the Hon Ruth Dyson, who was a Minister at the time—worked very hard with me, the Council of Trade Unions, and Business New Zealand to find a way to make this bill work, and that is what was proposed to the Transport and Industrial Relations Committee ...

CAROL BEAUMONT ... like household arrangements. I also acknowledge the hard work of organisations like the Council of Trade Unions and Business New Zealand, which worked with members of the select committee and others to try to find ways of making this work and came up with ...

Hon ANNETTE KING ... the Hospitality Standards Institute, Ngāi Tahu, Meat and Wool New Zealand, the National Distribution Union, Zespri, Business New Zealand, the Seafood Industry Council, the Wellington chamber of commerce, and many others. The agreement is widely supported ...

Hon LUAMANUVAO WINNIE LABAN ... how supportive they are of the free-trade agreement with China. Let me give a couple of quotes. Phil O’Reilly of Business New Zealand said: “It is a very good deal. It is actually more comprehensive than most of us had hoped for.” Of course, Ngāi Tahu’s ...

Hon TREVOR MALLARD ... in the case wanted as a result. We have an increasing degree of unanimity between the Council of Trade Unions and Business New Zealand around the stability of employment law in New Zealand, and this bill puts the law back to what everyone thought it was. ...

TE URUROA FLAVELL ... number of different union organisations and we know that their members are very supportive of this bill. We know that Business New Zealand and the Council of Trade Unions have been consulted and that they both support the amendment. Many of these same ...

Hon HARRY DUYNHOVEN ... This bill responds to the needs of employers and employees. For this reason it has the support of both Business New Zealand and the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions. It reflects the Labour-led Government’s policy to provide holiday and ...

KATE WILKINSON ... understand it, and now it is introducing a bill to fix one part of that original complex, difficult legislation. As Business New Zealand stated, clearly the Holidays Act is not up to the job. This case has now been through multiple courts. With two split ...

Hon MARK GOSCHE ... pretty simple legislation. We have the two major organisations in New Zealand that represent employees and employers, Business New Zealand and the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions, both saying that they support this bill. We have National members saying ...

Dr the Hon LOCKWOOD SMITH ... sector to lead by example on sustainability. The unifying concept, she says in her speech, is sustainability. At a Business New Zealand function last night, one of the key speakers—one of my colleagues remembers this, too—said that if members of the ...

Hon PETE HODGSON ... New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, and no collaboration with the social partners, the Council of Trade Unions, or with Business New Zealand. That happened only under this Government; in Australia it is a matter of continuum. Here we stopped doing all that. ...

Rt Hon HELEN CLARK ... skills strategy for the existing workforce. That will be developed through a partnership between the Government, Business New Zealand, and the Council of Trade Unions. There is public concern, which the Government shares, about crime among young ....

Hon LIANNE DALZIEL ... The register will be operated by the Companies Office. The Companies Office has been consistently assessed by the Business New Zealand - KPMG survey as the most helpful Government department in New Zealand. It provides a world-class service, with ...

GORDON COPELAND ... and individuals, including the Property Council of New Zealand, Federated Farmers, the Treaty Tribes Coalition, Business New Zealand, the New Zealand Business Roundtable, and the Human Rights Commission. The only significant naysayer in relation to ...

KEITH LOCKE ... in the same room: the lead unionists, those in the manufacturing area, business people such as Phil O’Reilly of Business New Zealand, people from the Employers Federation, and various individual manufacturers who are producing good-quality, New Zealand -...

R DOUG WOOLERTON ... Export growth is reliant on a favourable dollar. So much work has been done over the past year on Export Year with Business New Zealand coming on board, along with the Chamber of Commerce, and we are finally getting somewhere by forming strong Government ...

Dr the Hon LOCKWOOD SMITH ... employer contribution regime for the KiwiSaver system here in New Zealand. These are the provisions that caused Business New Zealand to come to the Finance and Expenditure Committee and say that New Zealand businesses had been ambushed by the Government,...

Dr the Hon LOCKWOOD SMITH ... set up the framework for the employee contributions. The submissions were fascinating. Representatives from Business New Zealand came along to the Finance and Expenditure Committee. This is not the Business Roundtable; these are the ones who are ...

Hon BILL ENGLISH ... at the rate set out in the bill. We had some combined submissions from the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions and Business New Zealand that highlighted both of the issues I mentioned: one being the affordability of the specified rates of contribution of ...

GORDON COPELAND ... multibillion-dollar meat exports. I thank in particular the Meat Industry Association, and also Federated Farmers, Business New Zealand, and the Deer Farmers Association for the very sound submissions they made to the Commerce Committee on this issue. ...

Dr PAUL HUTCHISON ... signals that such a system sends to the students themselves. These concerns were pointed out by representatives from Business New Zealand, who said that the concept of a repayment holiday raises fundamental questions of fairness. Why should borrowers who ...

Hon BRIAN DONNELLY ... to come back home with the experience that they have gained while they were overseas. Paul Hutchison talked about Business New Zealand. It asked why we made it different—the changes really create an incentive to go off overseas. I think it failed to ...

Dr PAUL HUTCHISON ... higher than it is in New Zealand. The quid pro quo of this bill, as pointed out by some of my colleagues and by Business New Zealand, is that we have to inculcate disciplines and appropriate realisations that there are obligations to go with this ...

Dr PAUL HUTCHISON ... bill is the result of consequences of actions taken by the Labour Government to stay in power. Organisations like Business New Zealand have pointed out as well that this bill certainly is not perfect in any way.

Dr PAUL HUTCHISON ... bill, as we do in National. But it is worthwhile spending just a little bit of time looking at the submission from Business New Zealand as to why it was concerned about some aspects of this bill. I think everybody was in agreement with the data matching. ...

Dr WAYNE MAPP ... was not quite right. I point out that the concerns came not just from employees, which was predictable, but also from Business New Zealand and the Employers and Manufacturers Association. They were concerned that there was not a fair process in the bill, ...

DARIEN FENTON ... of a fault on the part of the employee. This bill assumes that the fault is always on the part of the employee. Business New Zealand suggested that probationary employment guidelines be introduced, including the need for regular supervision and ...

LINDSAY TISCH ... it easier for them to control their operations. In looking at business growth, I have here a dossier put out by Business New Zealand. It talks about the seven pillars of growth, one of which is specifically about a business-friendly environment. It ...

Dr PAUL HUTCHISON ... Government goes. The other aspect Labour claims is that the scheme is sustainable. What does Mr Phil O’Reilly of Business New Zealand say about the merger? He says that not only will merging the two accounts mean that employers are subsidising accident ...

HEATHER ROY ... will not do that. It will not see the incentivisation of safety, and that has been pointed out by groups like Business New Zealand. The first point to be made is that the employers’ account is significantly overfunded, compared with the self-employed ...

CHRIS TREMAIN ... is to encourage a long-term savings habit. The likes of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia, Aon, and Business New Zealand were supportive of the intent of the bill and considered it to be a “laudable objective”. The likes of BNZ and Fidelity ...

BRIAN CONNELL ... and a further four are proposed. And the Minister says that she is serious about reducing compliance costs! The Business New Zealand latest publication, Regulation Perspectives, calculates that over 2,000 new regulations have been introduced since ....

JACQUI DEAN ... bill was sent to the select committee I wrote to the chambers of commerce around New Zealand, retailer associations, Business New Zealand, various retailers, and individual business owners. I have also written to every local authority in New Zealand. I ...

SUE BRADFORD ... Hughes, who was representing Trevor Mallard. The launch was attended by representatives from the local council, Business New Zealand, Textiles New Zealand, the National Distribution Union, the Clothing, Laundry, and Footwear Workers Union, and the Buy ...

SUE KEDGLEY ... of their policy, but this bill is aimed at reducing the pressures on families. In the final analysis it is Business New Zealand, not the interest of families, that determines how the National Party votes on legislation. I thank all of those who ...

Hon MARK GOSCHE ... of people in New Zealand who will most appreciate it. I think the National Party and New Zealand business people—Business New Zealand, the Employers and Manufacturers Association, and the Business Roundtable—who purport to represent the interests of ...

LESLEY SOPER ... bill? They oppose it because their mates—the Business Roundtable, the Employers and Manufacturers Association, and Business New Zealand—have told them to oppose it. It is not because they believe in opposing it and not because people like Paula Bennett ...

SUE KEDGLEY ... the care of any person. I think the Minister has made a fantastic amendment. Indeed, she has met with and talked with Business New Zealand, and has made a series of amendments—I will not go through them all—that meet many, perhaps most, of its concerns. ...

Hon MARK GOSCHE ... working arrangements. I was sitting on a select committee the other day and I read some very interesting stuff from Business New Zealand about productivity in this country—the National Party should take note of it. Business New Zealand said that there is a ...

Hon RUTH DYSON ... our economy, and our environment. The Government has taken the opportunity during those 14 months to work with Business New Zealand and the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions in order to explore the issue of workplace flexibility in greater depth. I ...

DARIEN FENTON ... to see benefits for both businesses and workers. It is very disappointing to hear of the opposition to this bill from Business New Zealand. I have to say that when it comes to work-life balance, that organisation talks the talk, but when it comes down to ...

Dr WAYNE MAPP ... will need a more prescriptive approach. I also want to make it clear that business organisations, and in particular Business New Zealand, the Employers and Manufacturers Association (Northern), and the Employers and Manufacturers Association (Central) were ...

Dr WAYNE MAPP ... and, indeed, the community can promote families. Probably the most significant submission on the bill was the Business New Zealand submission—and not, I say, for the usual reasons. Normally, one would expect Business New Zealand, the Employers and ...

SUE BRADFORD ... word or two about what Dr Mapp and Paula Bennett were speaking about. I was struggling to identify the nature of the Business New Zealand submission to which Dr Mapp referred, as I did not sit on the Transport and Industrial Relations Committee and was not ...

Dr WAYNE MAPP ... the previous claim for parental leave. I presume that actually is the intention of that provision, but certainly the Business New Zealand submission was also rather surprised at the change of the 12 months down to 6 months, it could not quite see the point ...

LINDSAY TISCH ... paid parental leave, but say there should be the 12-month provision. Not only the Retailers Association but also Business New Zealand, which represents a huge number of businesses throughout the country, recommended that 12 months continue to be the ...

Dr WAYNE MAPP ... call on this part because I want to reflect on the point made by Paula Bennett that picked up on an issue in the Business New Zealand submission—although amongst our group we had substantially discussed this issue well prior to the Business New Zealand ...

Dr WAYNE MAPP In the previous part we were discussing the importance, under the words of Business New Zealand and Paula Bennett, of extending the whole concept of paid parental leave basically to all parents, recognising that ...

DAVID BENNETT ... the extent of our legislation so that we do cover specific cases where someone could get into that circumstance. Business New Zealand, which made some very good submissions during the process, raised the case where a permanent employee on parental leave ...

Dr WAYNE MAPP ... should do it by a lump sum, or whether one should spread it over 14 weeks. Should, for instance, people listen to the Business New Zealand submission and pay a parental benefit for all parents? Those are legitimate and reasonable questions to ask. In fact, I ...

DAVID BENNETT ... discussed, so there was nothing wrong with bringing forward an example like that today. There are other examples. Business New Zealand put forward a perfectly good example of a situation that could arise if an employee who took paid parental leave was ...

GORDON COPELAND ... and more effective thing to do. The submissions to the Finance and Expenditure Committee from Federated Farmers, Business New Zealand, the Business Roundtable, and many others, all made this central point: it is time for the Government to rein in its ...

Dr the Hon LOCKWOOD SMITH ... Policy Statement. Among members of the public were groups from the business world, including the Business Roundtable, Business New Zealand, and Federated Farmers. The Business Roundtable, admittedly, does not have a huge number of members, but it has very ...

Dr WAYNE MAPP ... us that that is not the case. Did not Ms Bradford watch television tonight? Did she not hear Mr Phil O’Reilly of Business New Zealand point out exactly the issue of additional training being needed for new workers? It is not just about skill; is it ...

TIM GROSER ... than the Minister appears to realise, but I particularly liked the immediate reaction of the Chief Executive of Business New Zealand, Mr O’Reilly, who was asked to give a response, given that many of his members are suffering from a combination of an ...

Hon RUTH DYSON ... we did to become the Government. Last week I had the pleasure of going to the start-of-the-year function hosted by Business New Zealand. The President of Business New Zealand, Stephen Collins, got up to welcome everyone to the function, and his opening ...