Apparently coverage of Waitangi Day events at Waitangion TV is pretty special this year
Even the Navy was there last week as part of the filming ,..along with the PM.
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Apparently coverage of Waitangi Day events at Waitangion TV is pretty special this year
Even the Navy was there last week as part of the filming ,..along with the PM.
They have had to deal with it, even if they have made a bad job of doing so and squandered any extra time NZ had before Omicron seeped through the border. They have to try to delay the inevitable because of the poor capacity of health services, and lack of booster and testing preparedness. National on the other hand have been able to luxuriate in soul-searching and in-fighting.
I think the Government is dealing with it very well. They are learning from other countries how to handle omicron, which is an advantage for NZ. I listened to Ardern on Sunday and was impressed with how she is handling it.
The Government made a big change on Sunday and NZ will now have to learn to live with virus.
You have been wanting the Government to end restrictions and now they are moving in that direction. At the same time, they are making sure the health system is not overloaded, and that supply chains are maintained ie supermarkets are stocked. They will impose more restrictions if that happens.
It is a huge culture change for NZ and some people will be slow to adapt. Just as some people have been slow to take up the vaccine, or boosters. Elimination was a successful strategy for a while and now it is time to move on to. With omicron in the community, we just have to learn to live with it which may cost hundreds or even thousands of deaths.
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/a-big-cul...w-zealands-way
These draconian awful Restraint of Trade clauses which were introduced by National's Bill Birch if I remember correctly, are an impediment to general productivity.
People become stuck in jobs, stagnating when they have outgrown the positions they hold & want to move on.
By preventing them from earning a living for several months, they reduce the natural competition between potential employers to get the best employee possible, & allowing talent to continually rise.
While there may be a few justifiable cases, the broad brush law captured everyone, even lowly paid workers.
Just as competition between employees for the best jobs is a good thing, competition between employers for the best employees is a good thing and impediments or hurdles reduce productivity in the economy.
The key word there is "willingly". Employment Law recognises there is almost always an imbalance of power between the employer and the employee. From the Employment Relations Authority to the Employment Court and all the way up it is recognised that the choices available to workers are constrained, and that it is a legitimate function of the ERA sitting in "equity and good conscience" to determine what is "fair and reasonable"in considering whether contractual terms are enforceable. The ERA does that routinely.
You may have a moral problem when people try to overturn contracts. I don't - particularly when there is an imbalance of power involved as in an IEA.
Over the last twenty years I have advised literally hundreds of workers who signed IEAs without advice and who had only the vaguest idea of many of the provisions in a multipage boilerplated agreement.
I certainly do. It's despicable behaviour to agree to something that binds another party and then turning against them. If there is an imbalance of power that prevents a satisfactory deal - walk away. It's not compulsory to deal.
Bash out the terms first. If you agree then sign the agreement. If not - forget it. Be a man, not a wimpy little twit.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/heal...-shattered-arm
Hey dobby41, here is an update of that storey you said was probably just another beat up on this poor government. "nothing to see here", no facts you said.
BE KIND....
There is a cult that believes in magic glasses and underpants, heard of it?