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On the day the minimum wage increases to $20 I just want to say fuck you Robertson benefit rates can’t sustain that. Moron.
I see now with our Aussie mates having community cases of Covid it has shut National up for a few days.
Epic 139-day world cruise that includes NZ sells out immediately
Cleary short memories!
“The COVID-19 pandemic spread to a number of cruise ships, with the nature of such ships—including crowded semi-enclosed areas, increased exposure to new environments, and limited medical resources—contributing to the heightened risk and rapid spread of the disease.[1]
The British-registered Diamond Princess was the first cruise ship to have a major outbreak on board, with the ship quarantined at Yokohama from 4 February 2020 for approximately one month. Over 700 people became infected, and 14 people died. At the time, the ship accounted for over half the reported cases of SARS-CoV-2 outside of mainland China.[2]
Governments and ports responded by preventing many cruise ships from docking and advising people to avoid travelling on cruise ships. Similarly, many cruise lines suspended their operations to mitigate the spread of the pandemic.
As of 2 May 2020, over 40 cruise ships have had confirmed positive cases of coronavirus on board. The last cruise ship with passengers aboard during the first wave of the pandemic, Artania, docked at its home port with its last eight passengers on 8 June 2020.[a][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][excessive citations] In addition, over 40,000 crew members remained on cruise ships, some in isolation, as of mid-June 2020.[11] Many are unable to be repatriated because cruise lines refuse to cover the cost of doing so,[12][13] and because countries have different and changing rules. The condition is stressful to many employees.[14] Multiple suicides have been reported.[15] ”
source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_on_cruise_ships
One of the most important ways to solve increasing inequality and exploitation, stop employers claiming that all their employees are contractors!
Group action in Employment Court asks if courier drivers are self-employed contractors or employees
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/439619/group-action-in-employment-court-asks-if-courier-drivers-are-self-employed-contractors-or-employees
If you are ‘not an employee’ than you don’t get minimum wages and are in limbo from exploitation under NZ law.
I’d say. Someone’s got to go in deep and audit everything to insure that employees aren’t diving under the minimum 40hr minimum wage plus penalties week and shut it down. That I’ll get the left up on its hinds legs with with a whole shit ton of pride, distinction and honour. Fuck anger. Y’all want to win? Let’s kick some ass.
Anybody over 18 who is working more than 10 hours a week for the same company in NZ should be deemed an employee and all rights regardless of any way the employer spins in, should be granted and all cases put through employment court. (ERA clearly needs to be beefed up with the amount of complex exploitation cases and cases outside of NZ statutory rights that are coming through, government and unions have totally dropped the ball and allowed a tsunami of non wages and poor conditions to prosper across all workplaces in NZ).
In addition to stop willy-nilly redundancies then there should be a minimum compulsory entitlement, aka working less than 1 year you get 4 weeks pay as redundancy compensation, and four weeks pay for each year of work after that….
Also directors who liquidate companies more than once or benefit in any way from liquidation or owe millions of dollars before they go bankrupt, can no longer be company directors or start companies for the next 10 years.
Will Sir Ron Brierly be sent back to NZ because of him not being of good character or does that policy only apply to the poor and the brown people with poor character.
Pike river promise’s?? Have I stumbled into the realm of conspiracy theory’s yeti yet?
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