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The Government is considering changes to current sick leave entitlements, with Prime Minister Christopher Luxon indicating that reducing sick leave from 10 to five days is on the table.

Speaking to RNZ, Luxon said:

“That’s something that I know [Workplace Relations and Safety Minister] Brooke van Velden is looking into. She looks at a whole raft of workplace relations.”

While he noted it was "a bit premature for now," he added:

“I think there’s probably a need for us to look at it for sure, and just make sure that we’ve got that setting right—particularly around proportionate sick leave for part-time workers versus full-time workers and those sorts of things.”

Luxon confirmed that van Velden is working on a broader workplace relations package:

“She’ll continue to talk about [it] as you’ve seen already this year.”

In a separate appearance on Newstalk ZB, Luxon suggested changes were likely and an announcement regarding sick leave could be expected, though no timeframe was given.

Current Sick Leave Law (NZ) Under current legislation:

Employees (full-time, part-time, or casual) are entitled to 10 days of sick leave per year.

Eligibility requires:

Six months of continuous employment with the same employer.

Working at least 10 hours per week on average.

At least one hour in every week, or 40 hours in every month.

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Stupid sun.

Recently I talked to three people who were ripped off by builders and tradies. One of them was out by more than a hundred thousand dollars, the others were in the tens of thousands of dollars.

People signed contracts and then didn't finish the job. In one case when confronted the builders said "you can't move in until I am done and if you don't accept this I won't be done for at least a year".

In the other case the contractor demanded double the money halfway into the build and contacted all other builders in the area and smeared the friend so that they didn't pick up the job.

In the third case the contractor took half the money up front, didn't show up for weeks, finally showed up for a few days and did a few things and the fucked right off. This was for about a 30K job.

Court costs are ten thousand dollars per day of trial (including prep work by the attorneys) so all of them had no choice but to take being ripped off. The tradie community seems pretty tight too so once you are ripped off you are known as a mark because all of them had issued with other tradies they hired afterwards.

Needless to say cops and the courts are useless.

Learn to do things on your own I guess. You can't trust any builder or tradie in NZ.

Widespread internet outages are being felt around the North Island, telecommunications company Voyager says.

It says it has identified an issue affecting "Chorus Wellington UFB (ultrafast broadband) handover".

"This handover services Wellington, Kapiti, Hutt Valley, Palmerston North and through to Napier."

Voyager said Chorus had identified the source of the issue and are working on a fix.

Currently around 90 percent of connections are offline.