The Job Situation
Cartoonist, Tom Scott, turned his clever pen (The Dominion Post 26.2.13) to the spate of recent job redundancies in New Zealand, with the Prime Minister seeming to turn a blind eye to them when questioned by the media.
The Prime Minister keeps talking blithely about new jobs being created all the time and not getting the same publicity as doom and gloom does.
The PM skates over the thin ice of those new jobs not necessarily being in the same location as the redundant workers are living or the new jobs not fitting their existing skills.
Somewhere, I’m sure I read an idea by former NZ Greens MP, Sue Kedgeley, that employers should have to keep paying redundant workers until they get another job. That’ll never happen but it’s real lateral thinking on the job redundancy problem.
The Prime Minister keeps talking blithely about new jobs being created all the time and not getting the same publicity as doom and gloom does.
The PM skates over the thin ice of those new jobs not necessarily being in the same location as the redundant workers are living or the new jobs not fitting their existing skills.
Somewhere, I’m sure I read an idea by former NZ Greens MP, Sue Kedgeley, that employers should have to keep paying redundant workers until they get another job. That’ll never happen but it’s real lateral thinking on the job redundancy problem.
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