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The Free Trade Agreement with China has world class provisions to protect our businesses against unfair trade practices, says the Employers & Manufacturers Association (Northern).

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Exporters are being warned to act quickly to lock in gains from the signing of the New Zealand China Free Trade Agreement today.

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We congratulate Ministers Cullen and Dunne for moving fast to address the employer KiwiSaver tax credit problem facing thousands of employers, said Alasdair Thompson, chief executive of the Employers & Manufacturers Association (Northern).

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Employers are asking Inland Revenue to urgently clarify how they can claim KiwiSaver tax credits lawfully due to them, says David Lowe, Employment Services Manager for EMA (Northern).

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Bungles in the law governing KiwiSaver are making anomalies in the scheme worse causing red tape headaches for employers.

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AUCKLAND — Retrospective changes to the tax rules by which companies organise their funding shows the government is out of touch with business, the Employers & Manufacturers Association (Northern) says.

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Dr Cullen is right to point out that for our incomes to rise we need to increase our productivity and only business can do that, the Employers & Manufacturers Association (Northern) says.

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AUCKLAND — It’s good to see the Government prepared to investigate the completion of Auckland’s western ring route by means of a public private partnership (PPP), says Alasdair Thompson, chief executive of the Employers & Manufacturers Association (Northern).

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Labour and National leaders’ focus on youth development in their first major speeches of the year are welcome, says the Employers & Manufacturers Association (Northern) or EMA.

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Nearly 40 per cent of workplaces reported personal grievance claims in 2007 according to an end of year employment survey, up from 30.5 per cent in 2006.

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KiwiSaver is nowhere near the success Finance Minister Michael Cullen is claiming, the Employers & Manufacturers Association (Northern) says.

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Exporters have a gilt-edged opportunity to exhibit their products in China at a time when New Zealand’s profile there will be at an all-time high.

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The basis of ACC’s ‘no fault, no liability’ compensation for injury has been blown wide open by a Court of Appeal ruling in favour of an injured person’s claim for income while off work as a result of an accident.

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AUCKLAND — Banning the building of new gas fired electricity generation plants for 10 years would likely lead to power shortages in the Auckland region, rolling brown outs, and restrict the city’s prospects for growth, the Employers & Manufacturers Association (Northern) says.

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The Employers and Manufacturers Association Northern (EMA) supports the launch today of the New Zealand FIRST Robotics Sports Competition.

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Rather than delivering a great leap forward for export growth, Export Year 2007 has provided the opportunity to build a platform for future export success, the Employers & Manufacturers Association (Northern) says.

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The employers’ National Wage & Salary Survey out today confirms pay rates are pushing up faster than last year, and for skilled people, pay is rising over twice as fast than for semi-skilled or unskilled people.

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AUCKLAND — The terms of reference for the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Auckland cover precisely the factors that need examining, the Employers & Manufacturers Association (Northern) says.

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AUCKLAND — The Employers & Manufacturers Association (Northern) is extremely pleased with the appointees to Auckland’s Royal Commission of Inquiry who are to review Auckland’s local government.

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AUCKLAND — Government’s advice to its SOE power generators not to develop any new base load thermal generation is a return to the bad old days when SOE’s were government departments and used to steer the economy, the Employers & Manufacturers Association (Northern) points out.

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The Energy Strategy, rather than increasing the certainty of electricity supply, will raise uncertainty and see its price rise substantially, the Employers & Manufacturers Association (Northern) says.

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Tax cuts are essential if for no other reason than to get financial discipline back into the government sector, the Employers & Manufacturers Association (Northern) says.

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Exporting is not high on the agenda of most established kiwi businesses, according to the 2007 PricewaterhouseCoopers Clever Companies/EMA Survey (the Clever Companies Survey).

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The Supplementary Order Paper from the Government on the Waste Minimisation (Solids) Bill is still riddled with unforced errors and unanswered questions, says the Employers and Manufacturers Association (Northern).

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Bring on the Royal Commission of Inquiry into how Auckland’s councils are elected and structured says Bruce Goldsworthy, the Employers & Manufacturers Association’s acting chief executive after hearing the latest squabbling between our civic leaders on radio this morning.

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The measures announced this week to ‘solve’ climate change amount to a long awaited strategy for New Zealand’s economic development, the Employers & Manufacturers Association (Northern) says.

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The dumping of Darien Fenton’s Minimum Wage and Remuneration Amendment Bill will be met by widespread relief by business, says David Lowe, Employment Services Manager for EMA (Northern).

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The Electoral Finance law could stop people reading messages opposing it or any other law in an election year, the Employers & Manufacturers Association (Northern) told Parliament’s Justice and Electoral Select Committee today.

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