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NZ parliament recently passed an act clarifying that wage theft is theft and that individuals may be criminally liable if they commit it: https://www.legislation.govt.nz/bill/member/2023/0245/4.0/whole.html
What's it like, having laws? Are they enforced?
We have a lot of nice labour protections (esp compared to the US, yikes) but ofc this means business goes around them (and current parties are discussing rolling them back to 'support small businesses' from having to do that).
It's really hard to fire a worker under contract unless they straight up abandon their job or violate their contract. If youre bad at your job, but not dangerous, its so hard to fire you (and taking you off shifts, ie: constructive dismissal, is also prohibited) that you'll basically be sticking around anyway.
But that means that employers just hire part-timers to work juuuuust under the requirements, or have them on the 90-day probationary period and oop sorry, I don't think it's a great fit. The results is that job stability is pretty good if you can actually fucking get one, but most younger Kiwis are stuck in casual work or move overseas.
Having not looked into the current parliament (I'm from Australia), let me guess, the conservatives?
More of less, though the division of 'liberal vs conservative', where almost all political and lifestyle ideals boil down into two camps (and leftists made invisible) is a very American one. I know that Aus is more 'conservative' than NZ is too, though surely not as much as the US.
Its more accurate to say its the neo-liberals. After Reagan and his Reaganomics, our cabinet followed through with our version, Rogernomics: selling off public services and resources to private for-profit holders.
To this day, Rogernomics and free-market liberalism (with focus on bonuses for hunting, fishing, and landlords) is the message of the National and ACT parties that are frequently in coalition.
You could call National conservative I suppose, but they're centre-right and have more in common with US Democrats. Our hard-right party is NZ First (the nationalism is in the name), and the seats for NACT where so weak that they have a coalition with them this cycle.
Together, 'NACT1' is doing a lot of shit, but ofc the Prime Minister, National's party leader, pushes the bills through 'under urgency' and then blames the leaders of the other parties for even proposing it, like his hands are clean.
And the other leaders - especially Winston - are proposing insane bills. Like, preventing illegal Mexican immigrants? In New Zealand? it's an obvious ploy for Kiwis that eat American propaganda on Facebook, but it will work. Our public news has also started using terms like 'wokeism' and 'DEI'. [siiiigh]
Thanks for the summary! I'm not using conservative in the US sense (which yeah, doesn't really have left-wing parties with any power), but more as a catch all for parties in the anglosphere such as: Australia: Liberal/National, UK: The Tories and I suppose for NZ: the Nationals and ACT.
They're practically aligned on most policies whenever I hear about each.
Just thought: there's no way a left-leaning party would think of rolling back something as obvious as making wage theft a crime.
And I'm not surprised I guessed right haha
You've adopted the American nightmare known as gig culture. So sorry, but it seems all we export now is dystopian bullshit. And bombs, obv.