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Minister speaks on changes to Holidays Act (www.stuff.co.nz)

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What's your opinion on the Holidays act moving to an Hours based accrual System?

"Hours-based accrual has the potential to achieve a much greater focus on simplicity. “While shifting to hours-based accrual may require drafting a fundamentally different Bill, I believe investing the time and effort to do this will deliver superior improvements to both employers and employees."

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

given the government legislating this its underlying motivation is to screw things back in favour of the employer and...

... Reduce costs. Nothing about this is to make it fairer for employees with tricky calculations, it's to make compliance ~~easier~~ cheaper and avoid having to back pay for mistakes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Yes, and in an employer-employee relationship where almost all the power is held by one party to the relationship one parties' "mistake" is another's deliberate obfuscation & hiding of entitlements.