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Speaker 1: Now this time around the Brook van Velden lad employment

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Speaker 1: law changes which I've got past in Parliament a couple

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Speaker 1: of days ago, have been described as a shakeup. In fact,

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Speaker 1: some call it a major shakeup. But as someone who

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Speaker 1: well remembers the Employment Contracts Act and Bill birch Watt's

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Speaker 1: being offered as merely a writing of a badly out

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Speaker 1: of whack employment market, the usual whining from the unions

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Speaker 1: has ensued. In a nutshell, there's a limit on personal

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Speaker 1: grievance procedures. It defines what a contractor is as opposed

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Speaker 1: to an employee. The thirty day trial is gone. If

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Speaker 1: you earn a lot ie over two hundred thousand dollars,

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Speaker 1: you can't go an employer for wrongful dismissal. I actually

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Speaker 1: have experience in this area. I was effectively effectively sacked

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Speaker 1: by tb In said about twenty five years ago. I

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Speaker 1: was on over two hundred thousand dollars. Under that particular law,

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Speaker 1: or under this law, I couldn't have gone after them.

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Speaker 1: But guess what, I didn't go after them anyway? Why?

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Speaker 1: Because who wants to work for people that treat you

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Speaker 1: that way? And that in essence is a lot of

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Speaker 1: what the workplace is actually about. There are bad employers

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Speaker 1: and good employers, and a lot of employers in between.

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Speaker 1: Rules are based on worst case scenarios. It's never been

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Speaker 1: you'll be surprised to hear this, it's never been a

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Speaker 1: better time to be a worker in this country. I mean, yes,

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Speaker 1: jobs are tight as of late, but if you are

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Speaker 1: good and determined, you can one get work because good

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Speaker 1: people are hideously hard to find, and two you can

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Speaker 1: succeed quickly. Most people and I cite forty five years

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Speaker 1: in the workplace here at the very least mean well.

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Speaker 1: Many are actually quite good. Work should be about enjoyment

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Speaker 1: and learning and development of skills and the climbing of ladders.

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Speaker 1: If you are bogged down in worst case scenarios, you

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Speaker 1: go nowhere. Equally, as an employer, how do you grow

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Speaker 1: your business when you're ankle tapped by a mindset that

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Speaker 1: infers your bad news? So all sorts of guard rails

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Speaker 1: need to be enacted in law. Bill Birch's law was

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Speaker 1: not the end of the world. Brook van Velden's won't

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Speaker 1: be either. The workplace recipe should not be complex. Work hard.

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Speaker 1: You do well if you're slack and entitled, you need

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Speaker 1: to be sacked. If you're young and inexperienced, you don't

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Speaker 1: get to be the boss in your second week. Not

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Speaker 1: all your personal problems are your employers problems. Not all

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Speaker 1: employers are out to get you. Unions by in larger trouble,

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Speaker 1: negative and potentially ruinous, and I've yet to see one

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Speaker 1: that has the country's best interests at heart. We're all

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Speaker 1: in this together. Too much employment law pits us against

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Speaker 1: each other, and no one wins. Van Velden's laws are fine,

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Speaker 1: no one is going to die. For more from The

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