David Burton is an employment law barrister at www.burtonlaw.co.nz and a regular opinion contributor.

OPINION: Workers should feel threatened. The National-led Government is planning to continue its programme of reducing employment protections for workers this year.

It follows a direction by the Government last year of requiring public service departments to identify savings of between 6.5 to 7.5%. Workers bore the brunt of those cuts.

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