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EMPLOYMENTINTRODUCTIONThe employment of New Zealanders is our first planning priority. The failure to employ our potential workforce not only limits our labour market capacity, it imposes a huge fiscal cost to the nation, while indirectly contributing to the level of crime, and adding demands to our health system. Addressing employment issues requires a collaborative effort between government, business and labour organisations. Essentially employment creation is dependent upon wealth creation and a system which efficiently distributes that wealth. New Zealand is primarily a nation of small and medium size businesses and job and wealth creation is dependent upon these enterprises thriving. As a relatively small market in global terms, business development and wealth creation must be export-led and the government must play a facilitating role in this. Maximising the value-added content of our exports is a priority. It is also to the nation's advantage to encourage commercially driven initiatives and regional development. New Zealand First is firmly committed to policies which will achieve these objectives. Export and employment objectives will be added to Reserve Bank targets. The industrial relations environment that facilitates economic and employment growth must be based on fairness, flexibility, and neutrality. It is also important that people obtain and retain a sense of worth and self-esteem through making a contribution to their society. New Zealand First is committed to the concept of a community wage, and to ensuring that people move from dependence on the state, to a state of independence. Our vision is of a nation made up of well educated, determined, healthy, and innovative people, and an expanding business programme geared around exports, regional development, job growth, and harnessing the natural attributes of the country.
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