More damage to workers? Hasn’t Brooke van Velden caused enough carnage?

Proposed changes to New Zealand’s leave laws under Brooke van Velden are facing backlash, with workers warning the Employment Leave Bill will leave part-time and shift employees materially worse off.

Proposed leave bill will make workers’ lives ‘materially worse’, select committee hears

Part-time and shift workers have told MPs they’ll lose money under proposed leave entitlement changes – but the minister in charge says that’s unavoidable.

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Why the Employment Leave Bill could hurt workers

On Wednesday morning, the Education and Workforce Select Committee heard submissions on the Employment Leave Bill, which would see both annual and sick leave accumulated based on hours worked.

A number of Public Service Association members told the committee how the changes would affect them.

Workplace Relations Minister Brooke van Velden said she tried to create a law benefiting everyone but was advised it would make things worse – so she landed on a bill that would see employees worse off in some cases, and employers worse off in others.

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Oh come on!

Hasn’t Brooke done enough damage to New Zealand workers?

The broader backlash against Brooke van Velden

She destroyed the hopes and aspirations of over a hundred thousand women workers by knee capping their pay parity so that this Government could balance its books for its tax cuts we couldn’t afford.

Now she’s back (after thankfully quitting politics for reasons that still remain secret) to give one more final kick at workers.

The sooner this scumbag leaves politics, the safer workers will be.

Shouldn’t we all know the real reason Brooke is leaving?

Shouldn’t we?