Why do we need to be open on Easter? I don’t mean from a religious point of view, I just mean from a needing a holiday point of view. Why do shops need to be open? Are we so enslaved to consumerism that we need to shop every bloody day?
The Government says it will be voluntary for workers to work Easter Sunday, but that’s crap. Bosses will pressure workers into working it, and if they don’t, bye bye.
Likewise the sudden need to change booze laws so NZers can get pissed during the RWC.
Why is Parliament taking up precious time to ram through under urgency legislation that helps the alcohol industry.
Isn’t it amazing, we can change Easter trading hours, bars opening for Rugby World Cup & gambling laws for Sky City Casino, yet we can’t pass health & safety legislation that annoys farmers.
This is the NZ that people voted for?
Farming is less dangerous than working in a soft toy factory?
The lies continue unabated.
Never fear, Michael Woodhouse, the hilariously named Minister for “Workplace Relations and Safety” (doublespeak if I ever heard) says, with a straight face, that if workers don’t want to work Easter Sunday, they will not have to. Sure they won’t have to but sure, don’t expect to get work after that if you don’t, not in this “Flexible” employment paradise.
Dear Michael. The labour laws of this land that your government have passed ensure that workers have rights but no ability to enforce those rights. And you know it!
Mozilla Thunderbird spell-check wants to change Woodhouse to Woodlouse. Seems to have had the minister pretty accurately summed up.
@ Jack Ramaka . ” Farming is less dangerous than working in a soft toy factory?”
Yes, it would be. Working in a soft toy factory poses the very real risk of dying of boredom.
Again, the priorities are all wrong…
I remember some years ago being in the UK when Sunday trading was brought in (albeit very restricted). I happened to be talking to a retailer and asked him how things were going. He said that the problem was, he made the same amount of money over the weekend but now it was split between two days and he had to pay extra staff for the Sunday. In the bigger picture, retail hasn’t really benefited, it just spreads the sales out over a longer period which has to be staffed at greater cost.
Therec was a very similar poll conducted here in New Zealand, GO, after weekend trading was legalised The results were pretty much the same…
I think these idiots that are now running the rules are hoisting a prank on us and creating a “deflective” issue to take our concentration off the really bad shit they are planning under the back room policies they use?
Woodhouse should read Woodhead
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