cbudMay 27, 2025
#NZPol #national #greensnz The current NZ national government has cut over 10,000 jobs and keeps cutting. Trump cut about 200k jobs. Multiply our cuts by 67 to get the equivalent (by population size). It's like 3 × as severe here!
Show threadJon SullivanMay 27, 2025
@cbuddenhagen Yikes! On #RNZ this morning there’s some complications with interpreting the NZ government job losses. Their original estimate of 9,520 jobs lost was criticised by the government. RNZ recalculated to exclude vacant jobs that were not refilled, and it’s now 4,157 jobs lost from the “core public service” plus about 4,000 from “Crown entities” like Health NZ and AgResearch. So, still much higher losses per capita than in the US. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/562350/how-many-public-sector-jobs-have-really-been-axed
How many public sector jobs have really been axed?

Thousands of jobs have been cut as part of government cost-saving. But exactly how many have gone depends on who you ask.

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@joncounts Those cuts to the health sector are really disappointing. Of course, I care about conservation, education, and science cuts, too.
May 28, 2025 at 10:32amWeb