
The health and safety reforms you may have missed
Obscured by the announcement of a ‘road cone hotline’ were a suite of significant health and safety reforms which a collective of unions say fail to support small businesses, despite others calling it a good result of quality consultation
The New Zealand Council of Trade Unions – Te Kauae Kaimahi (NZCTU) and Civil Contractors New Zealand (CCNZ) are both criticising the Government’s focus on a new ‘road cone hotline’, when there have been far more significant changes announced by Workplace Relations and Safety Minister Brooke van Velden. Continue →