Business New Zealand is officially walking away from the Government's fair pay agreements.  

The business lobby group sees them as unfair and unlawful, and believes they'll do more harm than good for workers. 

Small Business Voice chief operating officer, Max Whitehead, told Tim Dower the agreements mean employers would be forced to engage with unions and workers would have to pay union fees. 

“So it’ll be negotiated, for example, in Wellington, government officials and unions will sit down and then have a chat and go ‘let’s increase the wages, should we go 30 percent this year? Or maybe 40 percent?’” 

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