Sorry - I had put my employment advocate's hat on and wasn't clear.
Yes - we all need legal protection. I should have said I hope JLR's employees don't need to use the provisions in the law.
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Nope - you have been caught so just admit it.
As for prostitution, I was talking to one of the Stuff journalists about an article she wrote on exploitation in the sex industry post the legalisation.
She commented that the legalisation has made a huge difference to the protection of sex workers, the majority of who are well into their middle age.
She lamented however just how many young and vulnerable girls, hooked on drugs or craving expensive lifestyles, entered the industry with no idea just how brutalising the work is on their mental well being.
And in a way, the legalisation has of course made it that much easier for young girls to join the industry.
The legislation should have provided for a licensing regime which unfortunately it doesn’t. So there’s more which needs to be done.
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[QUOTE=Blue Skies;996386]Why do you consider it unusual? You are putting down prostitution as a legitimate and legal honourable profession as enshrined now by legislation passed by the Clark government?
Seems to us that you are behind the times and casting your moral judgement on prostitution?
Better you shift your moral outrage to corruption and immoral behaviour in Labour government, now & before. Start with Taito Phillip Field and continue to Mahuta.
Whose this Erica people are talking about as being Nat’s saviour
And the Greens are off - crying racism and privileges for the wealthy to try & head off the backlash from white middle class NZers fed up to the backteeth with the divisive useless and incompetent Labour/Greens government of the last 5.5 years.
Never mind that the Greens has been the most racist party that NZ has seen in decades.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politi...N7OYYFIUZ4GYU/
Like I wrote before, Labour’s internal polling shows that is where this 2023 election is going to be won or lost.
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The morality of prostitution is an interesting subject.
This sex worker says “It is not a moral/personal failing to pay for sexual services, just as it is not a moral/personal failing to sell sexual services.”
https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/14-03-2023/i-am-a-sex-worker-this-is-what-i-do
So at an individual level I agree that people should not be stigmatized for being prostitutes, and decriminalizing prostitution provides some protection to them.
But in the big picture prostitution is not an honourable profession. And it is a sad reflection on society that it is considered to be by some people. Prostitution is not merely “a job like any other.”
https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/29381/passing-of-the-prostitution-reform-bill
The Prostitution Reform Bill, which decriminalised sex work in New Zealand, passed on 25 June 2003 by just one vote – the abstention of Labour MP Ashraf Choudhary allowed the bill to become law. This video clip shows the overjoyed response of Labour MPs Tim Barnett (the bill's sponsor) and Georgina Beyer. Beyer, a former sex worker, earlier made an impassioned and moving speech about being raped at knife-point while working, and being unable to turn to the police for help.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/worlds-first-openly-transgender-mp-and-mayor-georgina-beyer-dies-aged-65/XJYEBLG24JEZFJ5TZPNG7LSPTE/
6 March 2023 World’s first openly transgender MP and mayor Georgina Beyer dies aged 65
Beyer spent eight years in government and counted decriminalising prostitution and bringing in civil unions among her proudest achievements.