Hairdressing law shake-up announced by David Seymour
Separate hairdressing regulations are set to be scrapped, with cabinet agreeing to all four recommendations from a regulatory review into the hairdressing and barbering industry.
The review, carried out by the Ministry for Regulation along with the Ministry of Health, looked at the regulations the industry needed to follow and whether any of them were deemed to be unnecessary or holding the industry back.
They included rules prohibiting dogs, other than guide-dogs, from being inside a barber shop and a ban on staff serving their clients refreshments.
Minister for Regulation David Seymour said “pointless bureaucracy” was being cut back.
How the Christ is ‘cutting red tape’ so your hairdresser can serve you a glass of wine the most important issue?
ACT are attempting to hold this up as a great moment of freedom, what a load of bullshit.
If we want to cut red tape, how about David Seymour’s Red Tape Palace?
New ministry paying staff average salary of $150k despite public sector job cuts
The new Ministry for Regulation has more than 90 staff paid an average salary of more than $150,000, new figures reveal.
That is despite the coalition pledging to slash back-office spendingacross the public sector and attacking the former government for creating massive bureaucracies.
The anti-red tape department is overseen by ACT leader David Seymour, who secured its creation during coalition negotiations last year.
Figures obtained by the Green Party – and first reported by The Post – reveal a median salary at the agency of $154,500, well above the public service median of $84,800.
This is just hilarious isn’t it?
ACT’s gold plated red tape vanity project is less a Ministry and more a Palace!
You get the feeling the canteen has sushi served on naked Japanese models, for a small Government Freedom Party, why do they have such a bloated red tape Chateau?
The hypocrisy of this is remarkable.
Taking from the poor, penalising beneficiaries and cutting public services while gouging on public money for your favourite vanity project.
It’s remarkable the priorities isn’t it?
Regulation ministry launches tipline in search of ‘red tape horror stories’
A red tape tipline allowing the public to report their regulation “horror stories” has gone live amid the Government’s focus on what it claims are over-regulated industries.
Regulations Minister David Seymour, who is set to discuss the tipline in his speech to the Wellington Chamber of Commerce today, told the Herald the new ministry had received a flurry of reports from people about what he described as “rapid regulatory problems”, which had informed the development of the new tool.
He cited examples including the requirement to service fax machines despite their minimal use and the need to detect flour dust at bakeries “at a level that no machinery can actually detect”.
“These are just examples of things that people have come to us with, that we’ve been able to have some influence on fixing,” Seymour said.
The Nark line will be used by industry who want regulations taken down for their interest to be used as PR material for ACT.
Of course we don’t want a level of red tape that makes it impossible to do things, but we have regulation for a reason and ACT are pathologically against Government on principle.
If you think David allowing hairdressers to serve you a glass of wine during your haircut is important, you are part of the problem.
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David Seymour, aka Bob the Fart, days are numbered, he will have his fifteen minutes of fame then once gone history will record his legacy as nothing more than a bad odour that briefly tainted the politics of this country. .
Yes Seymour’s ‘attention seeking behaviour’ is a recognised personality disorder that, in his case, knows no bounds…. But i guess when you’re a 40 year old virgin he’ll do anything to fill the void …sad!
Jim Bolger was right when he recently intimated that Luxon needs to grow a pair and tell the little twerp to …shut the fuck up!
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Our NZ government system is so much in disarray that we actually vote in puerile people like Seymour and actually same applies to most National and some Labour. It is totally insolent to present us with trivial matters like this to our main legal counting house, when so many things that do count are in shambles. F…g insolent and dastardly stupid from the complacent, wily, oily, smiling would be plutocrats with the brains of an ant that we are saddled with. And what sort of saddle can you put on an ant. It’s a logical fantasy or something!
Can you give us a clue to the puerile ones in Labour, or are you just saying that in case?
No Phil M – it’s like Where’s Wally only easier as a number of them are Wallies. But once you think about how Labour has gone along with so much that has led us down the dunny you don’t need to ask. Cogitate like Rodin’s The Thinker.
What a childish man. Small things amuse small minds.
This is the apex of his accomplishments.
Probably quite important in epsom though. Must affect, ooh gosh, 1% of the population?
He now wants blow waves renamed blow jobs
God, Derek I’d just taken a mouthful of water when I read that.
My barber used to offer a glass of scotch or beer while cutting his clients hair. That was until someone complained, so he was warned by the cops. It’s no business of the state if my barber, or tailor for that matter, offers his clients a quiet whisky, or even a coffee
Wot about a noisy whisky
Under the new rules can I offer to shave members of the ACT Party for free?
Funny country that can’t imagine getting a haircut without the help of a glass of wine. . . sad. . .
If people would like one – let them eat cake. Why bother Filth haven’t you got something in Wellington to worry about? Leave the rest of us to our relaxation in small glasses.
I think it’s just sad that they can’t do without one – bewitched, bamboozled, and bedevilled by the booze barons.
Yes, and that’s another problem, HF.
Held to ransom basically. Robot-boy must have a few vineyards backing him.
All the sleazy hangers-on need to be cleaned out.
Back in the day the barber ran a book.
Barber, Bookie and Booze – only the fun police can find the harm.
But what about all those no client barbershops meth money laundering?
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