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Speaker 1: Remember the outrage over the bureaucrats working from home. Government

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Speaker 1: comes in and says, pack your lunch, go back to work.

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Speaker 1: Problem is, it's not happening. As you'll know from listening

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Speaker 1: to this show, ACC is already staged to back down

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Speaker 1: on that. Now MB is doing the same, and to

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Speaker 1: her credit Flirfitt Simon's the PSA union has lawyered up

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Speaker 1: and successfully argued the workers collective contracts allowed them to

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Speaker 1: work from home, so they should keep it. Now the

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Speaker 1: policy to restrict working from home is heading for the bin.

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Speaker 1: According to MB, some ACC staff only have to be

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Speaker 1: in the office two days a week, the equivalent of

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Speaker 1: a weekend at the office days off or at home

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Speaker 1: are usually Fridays and Mondays. Quite convenient for them, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: This is all in spite of the fact that management

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Speaker 1: at ACC said staff are less productive and it's a

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Speaker 1: culture killer. Now, I don't blame the workers here all

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Speaker 1: the union. They're exercising their rights they won at fair

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Speaker 1: and square. They didn't even have to get to the

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Speaker 1: Employment Relations Authority, so good on them. But for anyone

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Speaker 1: who runs a business in the private sector or works

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Speaker 1: in way, this sort of stuff makes your blood boil,

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Speaker 1: doesn't it. If it's good enough for us, why not them?

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Speaker 1: Do they really work as much or efficiently at home?

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Speaker 1: And why was this cause written into their collective contracts

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Speaker 1: in the first place. Surely, once they expire, the next

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Speaker 1: offer of work might just require workers to actually turn

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Speaker 1: up for work. For more from Early Edition with Ryan Bridge,

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