Prime Minister Christopher Luxon is suggesting that the government will soon announce a holiday act reform to reduce sick leave entitlement for part-time employees.
This comes after last year’s proposed changes to the plagued legislation that sought to help businesses, the Government say, are struggling with the Labour decision to double sick leave for all eligible workers.
The Prime Minister was asked about sick leave entitlements and said an announcement was incoming.
“We might need to do things about pro-rating sick leave as well because people who were on part-time contracts are getting full-time 10-day equivalency, so Brooke van Velden’s working through some of those issues.”
Green Party Workplace Relations spokesperson Teanau Tuiono said changing sick leave entitlements was “nothing short of an attack on the morale and productivity of our workforce”.
“The Government is making a habit of revealing such changes at the start of Winter when seasonal illnesses, flu and Covid are placing many families under strain,” he said.
He reiterated his party’s policy of five weeks of annual leave for all.
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