The Daily Blog Open Mic – Saturday 23rd June 2018
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
Year: 2018
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Andrew Little called the Sensible Sentencing Lynch Mob ‘loopy’ & ‘callous’ because they are ‘loopy’ and ‘callous’
Poor Andrew Little is having to get to grips with reforming our broken corrections industry and part of that means confronting the madness of the Sensible Sentencing Trust.
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Stolen Holiday Pay must be paid back – the Government must act
The truth is there is nothing very complicated about the calculation of annual leave. Leave was to be calculated weekly and when it was taken it should be valued at the greater of the worker’s current wage or their yearly average. This had been true since 1948.
What was clarified in the 2003 Act was that if it was difficult to determine what an ordinary week was, for example, because they worked variable hours each week, then the worker should get the higher of their yearly average or the average of the last four weeks. This was explained in the Act in minute detail. No mistaken understanding could be taken from the plain language.
It has become clear that almost no major employer or payroll provider did this simple calculation. Many also did not include regular allowances that should have been.
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Emotion, Not Reason, Is Driving New Zealanders’ Attitudes Towards Crime And Punishment
It was the famous English jurist, Sir William Blackstone, who said: “It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.” It is perhaps the greatest achievement of New Zealand’s Sensible Sentencing Trust that the present reality of dozens of innocent persons spending months in remand cells for offences they will later be acquitted of does not enrage the New Zealand public. Their motto would appear to be: “It is better that ten innocent people remain locked-up than that one guilty person re-offends on bail.”
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Political Caption Competition
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Friday 22nd June 2018
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Where’s Matthew Hooton’s claim that David Parker is corrupt gone?
Yesterday, Matthew Hooton wrote a column in the NZ Herald that claimed David Parker was corrupt.
Today that article seems to have gone missing???
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IT’S A GIRL! Congratulations Jacinda & Clarke
Our unwed Millennial working Mum with the stay at home Dad has given birth to a girl!
That’s a Feminist trifecta!
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Auckland University Library Restructures condemned by Students, Staff and Alumni – A New University
A New University: Auckland University Library Restructures condemned by Students, Staff and Alumni A New University, a group committed to…
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TDB Top 5 International Stories: Thursday 21st June 2018
5: TRUMP JUST SIGNED AN EXECUTIVE ORDER TO STOP HIS OWN POLICY ON FAMILY SEPARATION
4: What is behind US decision to abandon UN Human Rights Council?
3: STATE ELECTION OFFICIALS DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT RUSSIAN HACKING THREAT UNTIL THEY READ IT IN THE NEWS, EMAILS SHOW
2: Seymour Hersh: Media Today Must Cover Yemen & Trump Policy, Not Get Distracted by Tweets
1: New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern goes into hospital to give birth