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See the newsletter attached for more detail, plus more news including:
Employment Relations Amendment Bill #2; Submissions close Next Monday
“This bill makes changes in the areas of union access to workplaces, collective
bargaining, the personal grievance system, employment institutions, and the
role and enforcement powers of inspectors.”
See:
http://www.parliament.nz/en-NZ/PB/SC/MakeSub/c/0/6/49SCTIR_SCF_00DBHOH_BILL10127_1-Employment-Relations-Amendment-Bill.htm
The parliamentary website link above gives access to the Hansard report of the
debate when the Bill was introduced on 19 August.
ANGOA encourages sector organisations to make submissions on this Bill - the
closing date is only a week away. There is wide concern the Government is
pushing ahead with an agenda that has been shown not to work, and in fact has a
deeply corrosive effect on workplace conditions, pay, and the wellbeing of
workers and their families. For two independent perspectives, see below
2.1 Council of Trade Unions view on the Employment Relations Amendment
Bill #2
The New Zealand Council of Trade Unions views the Employment Relations
Amendment Bill as a massive attack on workers’ rights with the effect of
undermining all New Zealanders’ job security. This Bill is being rushed through
at record speed. The due date for submissions is Monday the 13th of September.
The CTU has developed an on line submission and a more detailed analysis to
assist community organisations submit the Employment Relations Amendment Bill.
A basic submission guideline is available at:
http://fairness.org.nz/onlinesubmissioner
For a more detailed analysis go to this link:
http://fairness.org.nz/sites/fairness/files/SubmissionGuideERNo2a.doc
(word version)
http://fairness.org.nz/sites/fairness/files/SubmissionGuideERNo2.pdf
The CTU calls on people to “stand together and oppose this attack on our Work
Rights and Support Fairness at Work – see the campaign site at www.union.org.nz
2.2 Maori Party view on the Employment Relations Amendment Bill
Excerpt from a speech by Hone Harawira, Maori Party Member of Parliament for Te
Tai Tokerau “Maori Party employment policy is to support the right for workers
to be treated with dignity and fairness, so when the Minister said when
introducing this bill that “government is committed to producing an employment
relations system that is fair, pragmatic and helps to give New Zealanders more
opportunities and flexibility”, it sounded good … but the relentless increase
in unemployment confirms that this 90-day trial that we’ve had since March last
year, and which this bill aims to extend, is having none of the positive
effects that government has been touting, and the statistics showing that 25%
of those who got jobs under this scheme have since been fired, tells us that we
were right to oppose it when it first came to the house.
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