New Zealanders will miss out on two of 11 public holidays this year because Waitangi Day is a Sunday and Anzac Day falls on Easter Monday - already a statutory holiday.
Labour MP Grant Robertson said the holidays should be able to be taken on a Monday in such instances..."
The merits of this proposal aside- You had how many years in power, when you could have easily done this?
And didn't.
Like the $5000 tax-free threshold.
Pathetic.
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Pathetic? Yes!
But blame the parties? Why? Where was the outcry when people received/bought/obtained by means fair or foul a calender for last year? Not a sausage!
Give Labour credit - they thought of the idea before the Nats - who admittedly have far greater problems of their own making to deal with...
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