1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:01,920 Speaker 1: I tell you what I'm going to be watching with 2 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:04,560 Speaker 1: some interest in the next few weeks. It's that employment 3 00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:07,040 Speaker 1: bill that actors just introduced to Parliament that would make 4 00:00:07,080 --> 00:00:09,959 Speaker 1: it a lot easier for employers to fire staff who 5 00:00:10,039 --> 00:00:12,240 Speaker 1: earn more than one hundred and eighty thousand dollars because 6 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:16,000 Speaker 1: those quote high earning staff would not be able to 7 00:00:16,040 --> 00:00:20,200 Speaker 1: take personal grievance cases for unjustified dismissal. Now I say 8 00:00:20,520 --> 00:00:24,360 Speaker 1: high earning with air quotes, because while yes, these people 9 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:26,239 Speaker 1: do earn a lot more than the average wage, I 10 00:00:26,239 --> 00:00:28,120 Speaker 1: don't think that they earn so much that they can 11 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:31,319 Speaker 1: be considered I don't know, rich pricks and treated so 12 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:34,959 Speaker 1: callously as to simply fire them without them having any recourse. 13 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:38,680 Speaker 1: Many of these people, I think will probably be raising families, 14 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:41,320 Speaker 1: because you don't earn one hundred and eighty thousand dollars 15 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:44,240 Speaker 1: plus if you're in your early twenties, do you. These 16 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:47,440 Speaker 1: are people who are in management, maybe even in upper management, 17 00:00:47,440 --> 00:00:49,360 Speaker 1: and I'd imagine that they've got families to feed a 18 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:51,640 Speaker 1: lot of them and families to look after. So I 19 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:55,080 Speaker 1: imagine these people would be amongst the most stressed if 20 00:00:55,080 --> 00:00:57,560 Speaker 1: they could just lose their jobs all of a sudden, 21 00:00:58,280 --> 00:01:00,640 Speaker 1: I think actors taking something of a political gamble here, 22 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:02,440 Speaker 1: because I would have thought that this is a case 23 00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:04,839 Speaker 1: of ACT screwing over some of its own voters, because 24 00:01:04,880 --> 00:01:09,720 Speaker 1: remember ACT does well in well healed places like EPSOM, 25 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:12,000 Speaker 1: which is where people earning more than one hundred and 26 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:14,399 Speaker 1: eighty thousand dollars a year live. Now, I'm not sure 27 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:16,000 Speaker 1: what's made ACT feel like they have to do this, 28 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:17,880 Speaker 1: because it's not as if there has been this huge 29 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:20,560 Speaker 1: public debate about how people on one hundred and eighty 30 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:23,280 Speaker 1: thousand dollars plus have been terrible employees who need to 31 00:01:23,319 --> 00:01:25,800 Speaker 1: have their employment right stripped. And if anything, this is 32 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:27,880 Speaker 1: just going to provide work for lawyers, because people on 33 00:01:27,959 --> 00:01:29,960 Speaker 1: this kind of money will have the means and if 34 00:01:29,959 --> 00:01:33,559 Speaker 1: they have families to feed, the motivation as well to litigate, 35 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:36,280 Speaker 1: and I suspect that they will. So I'm very keen 36 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:39,320 Speaker 1: to see if ACT actually goes through with this part 37 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:41,800 Speaker 1: of its plan, because from where I'm sitting, this just 38 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:45,640 Speaker 1: looks like a really weird idea with more downsides than upsides. 39 00:01:46,400 --> 00:01:49,600 Speaker 1: For more from Heather Duplicy, Allan Drive listen live to 40 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:52,720 Speaker 1: news talks. It'd be from four pm weekdays, or follow 41 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:54,520 Speaker 1: the podcast on iHeartRadio