And now ACT come for our sick days
Part-time workers could get less sick leave under law change, Workplace Relations Minister announces
Part-time workers could end up with less sick leave in an update of the Holidays Act announced by the Workplace Relations Minister.
The draft legislation will be released ahead of targeted consultation in September.
Van Velden announced the move in a speech at the Pacific Economic Development Agency in Auckland.
She said she had heard from businesses who were struggling to adjust to the previous government’s decision to double sick leave entitlements from five to 10 days, which took effect in 2021.
She said changes in the draft bill could include pro-rating sick leave “to better reflect how much an employee works”.
“Workplaces that rely on part-time workers are particularly vulnerable to unexpected staffing shortages,” she said.
This would mean the amount of sick leave workers were entitled to would depend on how much they worked – leaving part-time workers with less.
“This means in an employee works a full work week, they will receive 10 days sick leave. An employee who works fewer hours will receive a proportion of that entitlement. What that proportion looks like will form part of our consultation.”
And now ACT come for your sick days!
You will remember Luxon clearly ruled out anyone losing sick day entitlements during the election…
…but of course as soon as they get in, they lie!
Ask the cancer patients!
This hard right racist climate denying beneficiary bashing Government are in the thrall of their donor mates and their donor mates want to slash worker rights, so that’s what they will do.
Slashing workers rights to sick pay and cutting off their holiday rights will not keep workers in NZ, it will make debt slaves of them so they can never flee in the first place!
This is a nation dependent on a low wage economy and the Right intend to cement that into place.
So ACT wants sick people to go to work, make other people sick, perform under par, make mistakes, and probably get even sicker in the process. Nobody benefits from this savagery except those with a vested interest in the breakdown of society.
Luxon is pathetic. A liar who will roll over for anything as long as the landlords and landowners get looked after. That’s because A)it is self serving and B) he’s taken so much from the sector.
I wouldn’t be too keen on the road works guy operating the Stop/Go sign like Nicola Willis’s dad having to work when sick. Or the petrol tank driver, or bus driver, or Indian takeaway chef, or hospital cleaner, or teacher’s aide, or a carpenter’s apprentice and the Filipino painting granny’s pensioner unit, working when health challenged. Sounds pretty damn reckless all round.
This does seem pretty fair. I fail to see the problem here.
No it isn’t .
Part time workers sick leave is only 10 x times the number of hours they work.
So if they only work 1 day a week they still only get 1 days pay.
Or if they only work 1 x 4 hours on that 1 day they only get 4 hours pay.
So no it is not fair.
This is nothing but a wages grab.
And on the other end of the scale if you work 60 hours a week, you dont get extra sick leave, seems like a wages grab, ’cause it is.
The Act fuckers are intent on ECA MkII and union busting–the NZCTU and PSA better get their heads around that and plan some direct action.
Never mind low union density–caused by the original 1991 Employment Contracts Act which derecognised unions, decimated numbers and workers rights, and even provoked an investigation by the International Labour Organisation.
TPM and the Greens are onto all this, the CTU needs to organise regional meetings including non members and families to organise against employers large and small.
Makes sense, a part time 2days per week collegue gets the same allowance of sick leave as I do working full time. Brings it in line with Annual leave.
i think the problem is more to be wary of giving sharks an inch as they will eventually take a mile
I think the problem is more of being wary of giving sharks an inch when they will eventually take a mile
… and at the same time they are stunned about the increased crime rate (after cutting public service, sick pay, support for Maori and lower socioeconomic income New Zealanders, worker rights, human rights (hell, that tard Seymour and his tard supporters want to get rid of the Human rights commission – only property rights count etc.). While this pathetic excuse for a government destroy 6 years of correction for the previous administrations mess … this lot create another one that the next left government will need to correct. Because taxes have also been cut (mainly for the better off) they will also need to be corrected and borrowing may be necessary to fix the damage this lot are causing. Two and a half more years of carnage to endure as we watch the planet burn and our livelihood disappear offshore – thanks Nats/ACT/Winston First rats!
Hey Anker, if you are still around, you voted for this. I would love you to justify voting away people sick leave.
You are and always be a traitor to the workers of this country.
Do you work part time Josh? nah probably not, do you know what it is like to survive on a part time wage or have to work more than one jobs to make ends meet? nah probably not.
My sister who has a long- term mental illness was forced to work full time (by the same nasty mean government that’s in power today) when part time was good for her, she ended up sick and then didn’t work at all. I know people like our cleaners at our job (that is paru now due to lack of cleaning) there hours were cut back, and they had to look for other jobs to fill the gap and there are many others that need more hours but are not offered them. Some people have no choice as they can only physically or mentally cope with a part time job. Too much is now skewed towards businesses and the rich getting richer this is not good for our country and people.
Next will be chains around ankles and those refusing to work will be asked to line up for a ” shower” such is this hard right takeover.
And the shower would be run by a private company
Yep Hitler and Associates
Heard her being interviewed on national radio. She said she’d heard about all sorts of problems from business people. If the reporter had been doing their job, they would have asked her if she’d talked to workers – but then we all know the answer to that don’t we?
Come on , it’s not just about sick leave. You’ve been distracted again !
It’s about the new Ministry of Regulations with their wee hitler moustaches going after the WHOLE Holidays Act.
Then furtively , like rats let loose in a CPU without a plan , piece by piece weakening the whole ECA.
Then ANY other regulations, treaties , laws etc that get in the way of the DIVINE Libetarian delusion will be gnawed away too.
It appears as random , small , incremental chewing so you won’t see the destruction until it’s too late!
At the same time destroy the Productivity Commission put there by ACT and NATZ in the first place ?
Why else would you put $ 48 million into this band of brown shirt, jack-booting mercenaries at the Ministry of Regulations lead by a mad man ?
Because the Productivity Commission worked on research , science , evidence and monitored and reviewed impacts and outcomes across multiple sectors …
Egs: IMPACTS Like not having –
• A lunchbreak
• An overloaded trailer unit kill you
• A rip off by banks, insurance schemes
real estate agents and power
companies.
• DDT in your lunch or cyanide in your
cuppa
• Your toaster electrocute you
• you Die at work in a building collapse
• Your baby carseat kill infants
• Your medicine being snake oil
SO of course you have to hide that stuff when the donors get their prizes !
LOOK AT THESE GUYS WHO DONATED AFTER an election… why ?
• DV Chiscolm -$50,000 during November.
• Hero Ltd – $50,000 on December 12.
• Cosgrove & Partners- $6,000 in December.
• A Krukziener- $19,999 in December.
• The Houghton Family Trust – $10,000.69 on October 24.
• Garry Robertson – $11,750 in November.
• Scott Bright- $6,750 in December.
Now what barrierd are in these BIG boys way that the NACTZIS can dissolve?
We need to make sure Act aren’t in the next government they are downright nasty, and they have this I know best attitude and far too much power for an 8% party.
Isn’t the “I know best” attitude why we voted Labour out?
And voted in the ” I know nuffing ” nor will you ever find out crowd.
It’s the Government you all deserve. Enjoy.
It’s the Government you deserve. You earned it!
Pathetic.
Sadly Labour was pathetic, so we have the Government we have.
No, you are pathetic, your comments are living proof.
If TPM were given any power would they act better than Act .I have only seen hatred come from them to date not much leadership in fixing the problems besetting Maori
Sorry who we are talking about in your last sentence?
Augh, augh ,e! most important casual WORKERS, as is percent, of our working productive working profit producers, how come this girl, taking advice, why, well im! taking advice, girl, is your position out of your reach, or is your job, holiday, a bus stop, always.
ITS, OUR PROFIT, NO PAYING FOR SICKNESS OR HOLIDAYS, you you, DO AS WE SAY.
Everyone should be allowed a sick day and 4 day week. Except Landlords.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6qQSll7InQ
ACT are simply an appalling hard right political party born by Roger Douglas (ex Labour) and Derek Quigley (ex National) .
From there the taxpayers union was created and just look at who was involved there…
The New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union was founded on 30 October 2013.[7] The group was first chaired for four years by John Bishop,[8] a former Television New Zealand political editor, and father of National Party list MP Chris Bishop… well, well, well?