{"id":17186,"date":"2020-04-15T11:48:17","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T02:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/15\/jacinda-ardern-and-ministers-take-20-pay-cut-in-solidarity-with-those-hit-by-covid-19"},"modified":"2020-04-15T14:40:15","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T05:40:15","slug":"jacinda-ardern-and-ministers-take-20-pay-cut-in-solidarity-with-those-hit-by-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17186","title":{"rendered":"Jacinda Ardern and ministers take pay cut in solidarity with those hit by Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand PM says: \u2018If there was ever a time to close the gap between groups of people across New Zealand in different positions, it is now\u2019<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s prime minister has said she and other ministers will take a 20% pay cut lasting six months to show solidarity with those affected by the coronavirus outbreak, as the death toll continues to rise.<\/p>\n<p>Jacinda Ardern said it was important the government\u2019s most highly paid politicians show \u201cleadership and solidarity\u201d with workers on the frontline and those who had lost their livelihoods. Ardern, government ministers and public service chief executives will take the cut for six months, effective immediately.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/15\/jacinda-ardern-and-ministers-take-20-pay-cut-in-solidarity-with-those-hit-by-covid-19\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand PM says: \u2018If there was ever a time to close the gap between groups of people across New Zealand in different positions, it is now\u2019New Zealand\u2019s prime minister has said she and other ministers will take a 20% pay cut lasting six months to sh&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1069,268,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-jacinda-ardern","category-new-zealand"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17186"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17201,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17186\/revisions\/17201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}