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Speaker 1: The government is taking advice tonight on a landmark Supreme

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Speaker 1: Court ruling. This decided two parents who care for their

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Speaker 1: disabled adult children full time are employees of the government.

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Speaker 1: Paul daukas Case has been acting for the two cares

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Speaker 1: in this case and joins them now, Paul good evening,

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Speaker 1: what exactly does a ruling mean for your two clients? Now?

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Speaker 2: It means that their STU says employees has been recognized.

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Speaker 2: They are now entitled to leave a benefits available to

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Speaker 2: an employee under the Employment RELATIONSHIPCT. It will be a

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Speaker 2: further hearing in that court where the Theirence government will

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Speaker 2: be determined and they will they will recover recordingly. Then

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Speaker 2: there will be others that are in the same boat.

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Speaker 1: Yes, and that the ten thousand or so other family

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Speaker 1: careers that are thought to be out there. It doesn't

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Speaker 1: nothing applies to them. How do they get the same entitlement?

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Speaker 2: Well, in most cases, I imagine that the Ministry would

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Speaker 2: have known they were providing POMAN services to the disabled

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Speaker 2: trial adult disabled person because of regular masks and posits

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Speaker 2: and analysis, so they would understand that the employment relationship existed.

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Speaker 2: I expect that for many, or if not most, of

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Speaker 2: them if they make a claim under the Employment Relations

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Speaker 2: Act in the same way, they'll succeed.

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Speaker 1: Any idea what the cost of this could be to

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Speaker 1: the state.

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Speaker 2: No, But a couple of observations. One is that in

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Speaker 2: the course of this litigation over the years we've been

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Speaker 2: doing it, and one since we found that the Crown

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Speaker 2: hadn't even spent its allocated budget on providing care for

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Speaker 2: high needs disabled So what is that it was a

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Speaker 2: shortage of funding. Also, is worth remembering that this is

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Speaker 2: the cheapest option. The ways that care can be provided

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Speaker 2: for a high heights disabled person are either you hire

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Speaker 2: external from cares, bring them into the home and payment,

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Speaker 2: or you have a residential care facility, which is not

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Speaker 2: an attract ideas for many people, and you're ounting up

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Speaker 2: roach anyway. Well, sadly you paid appearance, so the appearance

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Speaker 2: paying appearance is the cheapest option.

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Speaker 1: Paul, appreciate that update for us. Thanks very much for

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Speaker 1: being with me this evening. That's Paul Dukawas's case. He

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Speaker 1: was acting for the two curs in the Supreme Court case.

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