Employment Law Changes a Waste of Time

“The planned changes to employment laws are a waste of time and effort and designed only to appease political lobby groups,” says Max Whitehead of the Whitehead Group.

Mr Whitehead says that Kiwi working people are sick of successive governments changing the employment laws solely to satisfy selfish, self-centred lobby groups, like unions and employer
groups.

“Ninety-seven per cent of New Zealand employers employ less than 20 people and these law changes will be meaningless to them. Why bother?” he says.

Mr Whitehead believes that of the seven proposed changes only two have any chance of touching on the majority of workplaces. These are:

• restricting the rights for workers to access confidential information during the redundancy process

• forcing the Employment Relations Authority to make immediate decisions on issues presented to it.

“Both these changes are poorly considered and designed only to appease the current hobby horses of a few lawyers,” he says.

Mr Whitehead says that if the Government wishes to make any real changes to employment law, it should exempt small employers from the majority of complex labour laws designed for the benefit of unions and employer groups who represent just three per cent of NZ workplaces.

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