Work Rights Under Attack
The National Government has since 2008, just as they did in the 1990s, pushed through many changes to reduce your rights at work. These include:
- Employers can put a new worker on an agreement where there is no right of appeal whatsoever against unfair dismissal in the first 90 days
- All workers have fewer grounds to appeal against unfair dismissal
- Reduced union rights of access to the workplace
- Removing all employment rights for film industry workers
- Weakened rights to sick leave, and propose to also make meal and refreshment breaks negotiable
- And now the National Party have promised to push through more amendments to your rights at work and have said that unionists ‘will not be happy’ with these changes
