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Speaker 1: Let's get to the bottom of what is happening with

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Speaker 1: sick leave. So the Prime Minister hinted this morning that

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Speaker 1: the current ten day allowance might be cut back to five.

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Speaker 2: Well, there's some changes coming through on workplace relation. We go.

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Speaker 2: So we had five sick days until just decided we

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Speaker 2: needed ten correct for COVID. COVID's Now can we agree

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Speaker 2: that it's gone? Yes, and we might need to do

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Speaker 2: something about sickleave.

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Speaker 1: We might need to Brook van Valden is the workplace

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Speaker 1: relations minister.

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Speaker 3: Hebric Hey, Heather, how are you well?

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Speaker 1: Thank you? Are you cutting it back then? No?

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Speaker 3: So let me just clarify a few things. So what

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Speaker 3: we are doing is saying, is it fear that someone

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Speaker 3: who works maybe one day a week two days a

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Speaker 3: week gets the same sick leave entitlement as someone who

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Speaker 3: works full time? We would say no as a government,

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Speaker 3: but there's there's no agreement from cabinet at the stage

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Speaker 3: to look at changing the overall ten day entitlement and

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Speaker 3: strip that back to five. We've only agreed to pro

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Speaker 3: rating sicklyve.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So how did you feel when you heard the

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Speaker 1: Prime Minister saying this on not one but two radio

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Speaker 1: stations this morning.

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Speaker 3: Well, look, I think we've also just got to you know,

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Speaker 3: give people the ability to be human. You know, I

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Speaker 3: don't expect anyone to be an encyclopedia make a year ago.

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Speaker 1: Don't make excuses. I listened to it. I thought, geez,

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Speaker 1: that's not your government's policy. I'm just a numpty listening

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Speaker 1: to the radio. If I knew it, why didn't he

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Speaker 1: know what his government's policy is?

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Speaker 3: Well, look, this was this was a discussion that we

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Speaker 3: had about a year ago. Now, so look, I think

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Speaker 3: we've got to give it.

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Speaker 1: Did you consider at that stage?

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Speaker 3: Look, I did go to a cabinet and ask, you know,

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Speaker 3: what did people want to do with the sickly provision.

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Speaker 3: What came out of that discussion was we weren't touching

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Speaker 3: the overall kind of ten day area, but we were looking.

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Speaker 1: At so it was discussed.

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Speaker 3: Oh I think, you know, we discussed a lot of things.

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Speaker 1: I'm just trying to figure out where this never mind,

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Speaker 1: it's okay, I see, you.

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Speaker 3: Know, but it's important. What we actually ended up with

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Speaker 3: was that we covering race.

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Speaker 1: You should as you should, but I feel frustrated for you, Brooke,

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Speaker 1: because what you obviously wanted to talk about today was

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Speaker 1: not what you're not doing with sickly, but what you

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Speaker 1: are doing with paid parental leave. So you're bumping it up,

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Speaker 1: are you.

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Speaker 3: That's right. So paid parental leave will be going up

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Speaker 3: to seven hundred and eighty eight dollars. I think that's

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Speaker 3: a thirty four dollars increase on the first of July.

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Speaker 3: And I know a lot of people have been struggling

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Speaker 3: with cost of living, but really importantly, people who just

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Speaker 3: have a newborn will also be struggling while they are

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Speaker 3: away from work, So the entitlement will be going up.

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Speaker 3: And I really congratulate anybody who has a beautiful new Bailey.

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Speaker 1: Thank you who place relations with this stuff. Oh things

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Speaker 1: get weird sometimes.

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