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MPs now allowed to refuse pay rises

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Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:56p.m.

A bill that stops MPs being given a pay rise if they don't want one was passed by Parliament tonight.

The law has been changed because the Remuneration Authority, which is independent, said it had no option but to award pay rises.

The Remuneration Authority Amendment Bill was drafted and introduced, although earlier this month the authority changed its mind about its powers and said it had got the message.

It decided MPs wouldn't get a pay rise this year because of tough economic circumstances.

That was after MPs passed a unanimous resolution saying they didn't want one.

Now the matter is settled, and the authority can take economic circumstances into account when it sets MPs pay levels.

NZPA
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12 Apr 2010 01:08p.m.

Mini Small wrote:

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH...... Oh gosh I have a sore gut from laughing.... And we the public are dumb and stupid...HHAHAHAH

30 Mar 2010 09:13p.m.

John millan wrote:

What is this the biggest historical joke of the year,What nonsense,Do you want us to believe that?NO PAY RISE THIS YEAR 2010,As the politicians have voted for a nil pay rise,BUT BUT BUT all of their expences are going to increase instead,Looks better (expences) and not PAY RISE,
after all they are going to ruin the lives of those who are stuggling to make ends meet,by Bennets irrational DSW claw backs,Smiths one eyed ACC policies,Ryals balarina health policies,And not forgetting Turia!s backing of these changes Oh I have forgotten Heatley,perhaps he got his job back with full wages promised by the primeminister,O!H mr Heatley we have missed you ever so dearly,what have you been ill?No i have just been away on a payed tax payers holiday,and they even payed for my trip and a few bottles of wine (what the cheap wine?No the real expensive wine,I dont entertain with that cheap NZ made stuff,I just drink the best,after all the tax payers are paying for it.Where did you go to ?Oh I stayed in a beautiful home in Wellington
get the sun all day,I just rested back doing a lot of study how to understand the rules of parliament.Was it expensive?no I took out one of those loans like Bennett did and I was told that I did not have to pay it back as it was under the jurisdiction of parliament rules,any way those tax payers also payed for it,and my luxury accomodation. And the Auditor General felt real sorrow for me,as as as I could not see the rules clearly as the wine left my eyes clouded over for years,but I said never mind I wont do that again in a small way, next time it will be much larger and I will take a few buddies along with me,as i was told that it was only tax payers money that I had spent.

24 Feb 2010 07:48a.m.

Kim wrote:

This makes me laugh. No payrise but a nice bonus in tax cuts coming soon. What a joke.

27 Nov 2009 12:14p.m.

Glenn wrote:

"A bill that stops MPs being given a pay rise if they don't want one was passed by Parliament tonight." As if that will ever happen.