Union, academic on government's unemployment insurance plans - a podcast by RNZ

The government is looking to introduce an unemployment insurance scheme that will offer ACC-like payments to people who lose their jobs because of redundancy or illness rather than just accidents.
It would be paid for by a 1.39 percent levy paid by both the worker and employer.
The proposal, which was hammered out by the government, unions and the country's main business lobby, BusinessNZ, represents a radical shake-up of welfare as we know it.
UNITE Union national secretary John Crocker and Victoria University of Wellington Institute for Governance and Policy Studies director Simon Chapple spoke to Corin Dann.

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