Cr Laws has confirmed he will host the 9am to noon weekday slot on controversial broadcaster Sean Plunket’s new radio station, The Platform.
Cr Laws said council committees typically met in the afternoon and council meetings began at 1pm.
He had been a radio host throughout his Whanganui mayoralty, and his new programme was in the same time slot, he said.
Cr Laws was mayor of Whanganui from 2004 to 2010.
At that time, he had taken leave for annual plan days "and it worked well".
However, he said local government was "prejudiced against wage and salary earners and it’s getting worse, not better".
"If you’re not self-employed or retired, forget serving your community on council," he said.
"Strikes out hundreds of thousands of competent, community-minded people."
Queenstown’s Mountain Scene reported Mr Plunket’s talkback-focused streaming service would launch in early May.
Broadcasting nationally from a purpose-built studio at Queenstown’s Gibbston Valley Winery, Cr Laws, of Cromwell, will join Queenstown musician and broadcaster Leanne Malcolm, who will take on the noon to 3pm shift.
Mr Plunket said by the time her more music-oriented programme came on, "we’re all going to need a break from the outrage".
Cr Laws has been centre stage in controversy at the council this triennium.
His comments in the media resulted in a code of conduct complaint laid against him by council chief executive Sarah Gardner.
He was cleared of wrongdoing after an investigation.
However, his official information request of correspondence surrounding the council’s role in an Environmental Protection Authority investigation into illegal dumping of waste into the Clutha River led to a councillor-initiated independent investigation of council staff.
Mrs Gardner has said the investigation, led by retired High Court Judge Sir Graham Panckhurst, had put pressure on the relationship between councillors and staff.
Meanwhile, Cr Laws’ social media commentary away from council has also proven polarising.
While he was defended by supporters for taking a stand, he was called "sexist", "disgusting" and a "creep" by others last month after screenshots of a personal Facebook post about obesity were shared by others on social media.
