在新西兰
工党领袖大卫•谢尔表示 国家党计划降低新西兰年青人工资只会逼得更多人存钱买机票到澳洲去找机会。 在国家党的领导下，有两万一千多个年龄介于18-30岁的新西兰年青人已经前往澳洲去找更好的工作机会。把
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在国家党的领导下，有两万一千多个年龄介于18-30岁的新西兰年青人已经前往澳洲去找更好的工作机会。把工资降低只会让更多年青人离乡别井。
我们需要一个能提供体面、稳定的工作和良好收入的经济，让年轻人有希望和机会，而不是国家党在鼓吹的低工资计划。
总理约翰基现在退一步说要让新西兰成为第二名。可是他竟满足于让新西兰成为一个低工资与缺乏机会的国家，让成群结队的人投奔海外，这个国家已经被世界远远甩在身后了。
工党的计划却不一样。 工党致力于通过创新与支持新西兰企业来创造财富。 我们不能袖手旁观看着制造业的工作流失 – 在过去4年里我国已经失去4万个制造业的工作岗位。
工党是有实打实的计划的。我们将支付雇主相当于失业救济金的津贴以鼓励他们雇佣学徒，提高最低工资标准，创建世界一流的教育体系，通过发展研究和税收假期以鼓励创新，通过改变货币政策解决高纽元，并通过资本利得税鼓励给生产领域的投资。
新西兰需要变革。
工党劳工事务发言人 Darien Fenton则表示国家党再次推出青年工资只能证明约翰基把重点放在削减工资而不是创造就业机会。
削减年青人的工资只让我们看到政府对于解决失业问题与创造稳定，体面的工作是多么缺乏想法。
削减年青人的工资只是冰山一角， 其他问题诸如改变劳工法也会对工人打击很大，而且让他们越来越难拿到公平的一份工资。
新西兰人们都很担心就业保障和工资停滞不涨的问题。他们想要精明与新的想法，而不是重用以前失败的政策。(霍建强议员办公室 供稿)
David SHEARER Labour Leader 09 October 2012
MEDIA STATEMENT
Low wage future no future at all
National's plan to pay young Kiwis low wages will just see them saving up their $10 an hour for a plane ticket to Australia, says Labour Leader David Shearer.
"Under National's watch, 21,733 young Kiwis aged between 18-30 have headed to Australia looking for better jobs and opportunities. Paying lower wages will just drive more of them offshore. "We need an economy that provides decent, secure jobs and good incomes and where young people have hope and opportunity not the low-wage vision promoted by National.
"John Key is resigned to New Zealand being second best. He’s content with our country being a place of low wages and less opportunity, where people are leaving in droves for jobs overseas and where we are falling behind the rest of the world.
"Labour's plan is very different. We will create wealth through innovation and by supporting our businesses. We can't sit back and continue to see manufacturing jobs being shed - 40,000 have already been lost over the last four years.
Labour has real ideas that will make a difference. We will pay employers the equivalent of the dole to take on apprentices, raise the minimum wage, create a world-class education system, foster innovation through research and development tax breaks, tackle the high dollar by changing monetary policy and encouraging investment in the productive sector through a capital gains tax.
"New Zealand needs to change," says David Shearer.
Darien Fenton, Labour's spokesperson on Labour issues, says the reintroduction of youth rates just confirms that John Key's focus is on cutting wages rather than job creation.
"Paying young workers less just shows how bankrupt of ideas the Government is when it comes to tackling unemployment and creating secure, decent jobs.
"Cutting young people's pay is just the tip of the iceberg. Changes to labour laws are also going to hit Kiwi workers hard and make it harder to get fair wages.
"Kiwis are worried about job security and stagnating wages. They want smart new ideas not failed policies from the past," says Darien Fenton.