Originally Posted by
iceman
And who is paying the higher wages and why ? If you read an article in the Herald a couple of days ago, it shows that the Government with their ever increasing number of bureaucrats (+50,000 under Ardern from memory) that get offered whatever they want in competition with dire straits private business owners that have been shut down for the last 2 years by this stupid Government's COVID madness. We are now hitting July 31 2023 and only today is this craziness from Ardern allowing borders to fully open and tourism businesses to start again. Unfortunately it is too late as tourists have been travelling freely for the last 12 months around the World and NZ has missed out,
I move on. The main driver of increased wages is like the person who left a good job in private enterprise at $86k p.a. to go to a golden parachute job in a ministry on $120k. There are thousands of people leaving private businesses to go and work for the Government, largely in jobs we don't need.
Meanwhile private businesses can not find staff, not even from the 105,000 useless twits on the jobseekers benefit that Ardern has nurtured with an increase of 45,000 under her stewardship. Sadly, many of them in the 18-25 yo age bracket, But you Mr/Mrs/It Panda, will no doubt celebrate this madness.