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Speaker 1: And you know, the story that's been getting my goat

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Speaker 1: all this week has been the accusation that New Zealanders

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Speaker 1: take too long a holiday over the Christmas January period.

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Speaker 1: And this story just keeps on burbling along. It started

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Speaker 1: on the weekend. We've got business owners and economists and

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Speaker 1: Simon Bridges and taught back callers all alleging that the

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Speaker 1: country closes down for the month and it kills our productivity.

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Speaker 1: But you know, there's absolutely no proof of that, and

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Speaker 1: all these allegations seem a little better than reckons. And

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Speaker 1: let's remember the rest of the Christian world are also

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Speaker 1: off for Christmas New Year, so we're not losing competitiveness

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Speaker 1: over that week, I'll we now. And of course, remember

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Speaker 1: the Northern Hemisphere closes down for August while we're here

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Speaker 1: working our butts off. Maybe some of the people moaning

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Speaker 1: about the summer break have lost track of the reality

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Speaker 1: for most New Zealand workers. For most of us, the

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Speaker 1: military minimum statuary leave for most New Zealanders is just

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Speaker 1: four weeks after a year of employment, twenty precious days

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Speaker 1: that we then have to eke out over twelve months.

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Speaker 1: There are four big school holiday periods. Parents need to

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Speaker 1: think about that, need to take a break. For most

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Speaker 1: New Zealanders, a big summer holiday might last until the

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Speaker 1: second week of January, and that's it. And the longer

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Speaker 1: you take over some of the longer you have to

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Speaker 1: work over the rest of the year. Only a very

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Speaker 1: few people casually skive off for January, the people who

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Speaker 1: have successful businesses, who have managers in place, the semi retired,

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Speaker 1: and all those superstars whose success during the year grants

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Speaker 1: them privilege and I'm looking at you, Mike Hosking and

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Speaker 1: the other group of the lawyers. Partly because the courts

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Speaker 1: closed down now. While judges have nice summer holidays, that

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Speaker 1: only allowed a weekened spring during the rest of the year,

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Speaker 1: so the lawyers can't work, so they bugger off to

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Speaker 1: their beautiful batches. And that's why lawyers were the most

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Speaker 1: concerned at the dropping of the new resource management system

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Speaker 1: this week, because there's a six week submission period and

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Speaker 1: that means the lawyers are going to have to work

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Speaker 1: all summer like the rest of us, and that's why

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Speaker 1: they're grumpy. For more from Early edition with Ryan Bridge.

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