NZ Eases Labor Rules for Small Businesses
Shockingly, union leaders are displeased
A change is on the way for a labour law that protects vulnerable workers when their job is restructured.
Labour Minister Kate Wilkinson announced today that small and medium-sized businesses with fewer than 20 employees will no longer be required, under Part 6A of the Employment Relations Act (ERA), to continue the employment of groups of low-paid employees such as cleaners when a business is restructured.
Part 6A came into law in 2006 to protect caretakers, cleaners, catering workers, hospital orderlies and laundry workers; giving them the right to retain their jobs and to be transferred to the new contractor on the same terms of employment.
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