it has been hard without communications<\/a>\u00a0and Stralink, stood up yesterday, allows businesses to do things like payroll and find out about suppliers.<\/p>\n“These businesses are hurting, right now many of them can’t trade because they can’t use water.<\/p>\n
“My view is that the wage subsidy mechanism, which is a tried and tested one, could be put back in place very quickly and could be essential.”<\/p>\n
Napier City Business Incorporated general manager Pip Thompson agrees and says the wage subsidy needs to be put in place with some urgency.<\/p>\n
“A large percentage of businesses in Napier CBD are locally owned and operated and they don’t have the fat in the system like the big players have so without a doubt, that needs to be injected back in our regions.”<\/p>\n
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