Any plan to widen the 90 day fire-at-will law to all businesses during this term will be a clear breach of National's 2008 industrial relations pre-election policy, Green Party Industrial Relations spokesperson Keith Locke said today.
"Workers' hopes of bargaining for better pay and conditions will also be threatened by the Key Government's plan to
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