- Who is your employment spokesperson?
Peter McCardle- What are your employment policies?
Our Employment Policy is due to be officially launched in August and we have made an unequivocal commitment to making an attack on unemployment our top planning priority.Growth of three percent each year is required to provide enough new jobs for the new entrants to the job market each year. New Zealand First's commitment to real economic growth of up to 6 percent is the prime means by which the number of unemployed jobseekers will be reduced
- What employment initiatives will your government take?
The key features of our policy will be:
-- the integration and co-ordination of resources currently under a number of departments
-- a regional approach to attacking unemployment with broad policy guidelines for meeting the needs of each region
-- the creation of Regional Commissioners of Employment to oversee resources and the use of Regional Employment committees which will provide the vehicle for the involvement of key sector groups in developing local plans to attack unemployment
-- a modern new approach to the Unemployment Benefit and its future
-- a priority focus on the reduction of the percentage of those who are long term unemployed, and on maximising the numbers of unemployed involved in part-time community work, training, and their contribution to the communityThe benefits of our approach to unemployment will be numerous. The involvement of key sector groups within each labour region will steer the approach of the Regional Commissioners. Unemployment beneficiaries will be required to be available for suitable part-time community work or training. New Zealand will have a community-driven approach to addressing the employment needs of the nation. In contrast to the current centralised approach to unemployment, different regions will be able to take differing approaches, according to local needs.
- What are you planning to do about welfare benefits?
NZ First would scrap the unemployment benefit and replace it with a community wage. Job seekers will have to be available for part-time work or training. Special benefits and accommodation supplements will be boosted.
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