One of the major problems of the new Government has been trying to force a right wing neoliberal state services sector into adopting more progressive ideas, TDB is thrilled to hear that Chippie is picking up another TDB suggestion by establishing a whistle blower hotline, agency and powers to protect them as a weapon to beat the neoliberal state services with…
Whistleblowers to get more safety under proposed law changes
The Government wants your view on proposed changes to a law which protects people who speak up about serious wrongdoing in the workplace.The proposed changes to the Protected Disclosures Act aim to protect whistleblowers from losing their jobs or being mistreated, says Minister of State Services Chris Hipkins.
He says the current law is too confusing and “not working as well as it should”.
…allowing State workers to bypass the bullshit filters used to stop their warnings getting to MPs will do far more to catch out neoliberal state agencies who ignore new directives than any other tactic (other than a wholesale purge of the state sector and the precious PSA won’t allow that).
These Wellington elite bureaucrats are accountable to no one other than their autographed copy of Roger Douglas’s Unfinished Business, protecting the workers who see abuse of power by the state sector will open up whole new cans of worms that will create the public fury the new Government can harness to force culture changes within the neoliberal state infrastructure.
Nice one Chippie.
9 years of NACT influence directly and much more significantly behind the scenes net working, has seen a shift from public good to promotion of privatisation and corruption being accepted within the public service.
The army of consultants engaged has further dictated policy shift to enable further neo-liberal machinery now entrenched.
A clean out is well over due.
not much use when the whistle blowers complaint ends up on the current neo liberal ministers desk.. once again hipkins creates a shadow to hide behind when he again gets outed .. till the majority of labours caucus is diposed of and replaced by real people not neo greedies nothing much will change
If you’re a terrible PS employee and going to be sacked, this hotline will be great.
Make a whistle-blower declaration and be protected from a well-earned redundancy.
Given that the employer knows who the whistleblower is (in that he suddenly doesn’t get sacked after being sacked), couldn’t the employer whistleblow on the employee, publicly exposing all his/her dirty laundry in the same manner?
Personally, I suspect that this law will work as intended with only genuine concerns being exposed (especially given the scrutiny placed on whistleblowers), as opposed to being cynically exploited in order to keep your job or stick it to the man as you are suggesting.
a good initiative, every little helps in this battle against “the enemy within” at the top levels of our state sector, though the neo lib culture obviously spreads amongst the lower ranks also, aided and abetted via the symbiotic relationship with the PSA
it is interesting and sickening really, the spectacle of monetarists happy to take inflated salaries from the tax payer, while undermining public infrastructure and services, and enabling where they can, penetration of same by private capital
Will this whistle blowing hotline include those in the health care and medical profession?
Ooooo…. This could prove to be very, very interesting.
So long as it’s not just lip service to keep the oiks from rustling.
Its like your implying this is a sort of hot line to report neo liberalism like its a class crime? Thats going to be a very busy line under Labour given their policies are’t exactly anti neo liberalism.
Can I report Kiwibuild and one year free study?
Labour just want ‘kind’ and ‘pragmatic’ neo liberal state services, free of corruption.
This is simply a whistle blower law, much needed.
But stop giving credit where credit is not due.
Classic really – daubing in neighbours.
Let’s assume it all turns to shit. Who will we look after the sick, elderly and new borns, yknow? Good old kiwi family culture. Just awesome ne ra kare. To much.
First you need to lock in universal health, welfare and state housing and create the demand in goods and services around that so we can tax the products and make sure the system is just hunky dory.
Then you need to think about continuation payments for woman’s Kiwi Saver / Superannuation payments because for some reason a lot of woman just fall off the employment stats at about age 30 and don’t come back to the work force until about 10 years latter and some never do come back so there needs to be a continuation payment there so we can look after the old birds in retirement. They’ve got 2 weeks domestic violence leave, another 20 weeks or so of maternity leave. That leaves 9 and a half years, a big gap in the average value of female pension values. That’s a huge gap that only the government can fill with a compulsory government contribution.
If the government gets one thing right it’s this. If they get this right the government should be re-elected on this one thing along. Yknow? We can come up with all these magic designs but if the will and the money ain’t there then it’s still just magic beans.
Nationalise the money system and bugger the banks.
The Banks will be nationalised when Auckland becomes a fiord, then we can nationalise the energy sector and move Auckland. Why we would leave the banks and energy sector to the people who ruined the place I don’t know. A lot of corporate types better get there shit together before the public start handing out crimes against humanity awards.
https://hangthebankers.com/
It’s a god start. Especially if Ministerial decrees are being deliberately short-circuited and not implemented. If it results in a few “Please Explain” letters sent to CEOs, all the better!
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