Hugh Grierson, of Hopscotch Brewery, is being pursued by Inland Revenue demanding he repay $45,000 in Covid support payments over the past three years - in wage ...
The guidance was always a little bit vague.” How were they going to pay mortgages and feed their children?” he said. “Will they make small businesses pay back $20,000 and collapse? “It’s a murky area. “I don’t want to liquidate. I feel like we’re getting back to where we want to be, but this is going to ruin it.
It shows the extent of those crossing - or planning to cross - the ditch, often to take up lucrative short-term contracts of up to NZ$8500 a week. There is a ...
Te Whatu Ora’s Margie Apa said the board had yet to put its recommendations to Cabinet, but funding for staff was top of mind. Nuku said there was an additional worry that the health system was losing many Māori nurses to the short Australian contracts, and they were already under-represented. “They’re going over, they’re getting better recognition, better pay, short term, and they can bring in additional money to the household budget.” “We need every nurse that we can find in New Zealand as well as as many from overseas that we can attract to come and work here, so that is a real concern.” “I didn’t want to be one of those numbers, but they’re not investing enough in the nurses that are here to keep us.” It shows the extent of those crossing — or planning to cross — the ditch, often to take up lucrative short-term contracts of up to NZ$8500 a week.