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The Health and Safety Reform Bill got lots of media coverage about what does, and does not, constitute a high-risk industry.

Labour leader Andrew Little says the Government should have sorted out the problems in the new Health and Safety bill during the select committee process and not dropped the changes on Parliament as it did.

The minister for Workplace Relations and Safety, Michael Woodhouse, says he’s concerned about the ridicule dogging the passage of the Health and Safety Reform Bill.

Labour's Primary Industries spokesman Damien O’Connor claims there’s been a lot of misunderstanding about what is or is not in the Health and Safety Reform Bill and says that’s no one’s fault.

The controversial Health and Safety Reform Bill has been sent back to a parliamentary select committee for another six weeks in an effort to break a deadlock on some of the proposed reforms.

Farmers are anxious about what the health and safety reform will bring and the new challenges that lie on the horizon. 

Retired kiwifruit growers with ‘dry’ shares in Zespri will have seven years to sell these under new proposals in the Kiwifruit Industry Strategy Project.

A war of words has broken out between the Meat Industry Excellence group (MIE) and Alliance Group over the former’s consultation with the meat co-op during its work on proposals for meat industry reform.

The vets’ national body says it is looking forward to greater transparency and enforceability of animal welfare standards when the Animal Welfare Act Amendment Bill is passed in mid-2015.

FARMERS NEED to keep pressure on reform in the meat industry, says MIE chairman John McCarthy.