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Major change Govt wants to make to workers' sick leave (www.newshub.co.nz)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Cutting part time workers' sick leave entitlements from the 10 days everyone currently gets to being pro-rated based on how much they work.

*** Also covid vaccines will apparently no longer be free for most people after this month.*** EDIT: this was circulating yesterday, but isn't true so that's good.

And this during the biggest covid wave in 18 months, where hospitals and schools are having to close or reduce capacity because so many staff are sick. What a bunch of ghouls.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It's quite an interesting idea actually, one issue I can think of is employers encouraging employees to pull a sickie, instead of taking leave, as sick days aren't a cost to them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

That's a possibility, but I think with some degree of oversight, and checking up on businesses with significantly above average leave rates, it could be avoided. A lower amount of leave taken is generally indicative of a healthier workplace, so perhaps there might be an incentive system where companies get reductions in their levies for low rates of sick leave... although that just turns the problem you described on it's head...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

That's fraud though so it would probably be the same employers who commit other kinds of fraud.