<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>25:38 provides transport for workers who are working these unsocial hours now that's a very important provision i know the national party doesn't agree with it but it's not only an important industrial provision it's actually an important anti rape and anti sexual violation provision because we know it's women who work in this industry <&>26:00 we know that if they have to go home late at night or or work strange hours that they need the transport protection but we also know that the national party doesn't support that and that they will vote against it the national party and the employER'S position and we heard this position er taken up in the select committee by the employers was that all of this should be left to the parties for themselves to <.>d to decide and yet before the select committee we actually were given a very good example of why we need the sort of scheduled protections that we've we've incorporated in this bill there was the example of video shops now video shops used to be classed as being under the appropriate retail award there was some dispute about that and the final court decision in fact determined that the video shops were no longer or were not <&>27:00 in fact covered by that award now the pay rates that applied in those <&>pronounced as thous video <&>pronounced as videu video shops when the award was sought to cover them tut was the was er the normal er double time or treble time or whatever penalty pay rates were applicable we also know that the award provisions of sick leave and domestic leave and and er ten minute breaks for morning tea and so forth had to be adhered to as well because they were legal protections as soon as the it was determined that the <&>bell rings video shops were not any longer covered by the award er by the award then the whole industry changed and the workers who now work in video shops receive a pay rate something like one voc third of what they used to receive we know that they do not receive their sick leave entitlements their domestic leave entitlements their ten minute <&>28:00 breaks for morning tea and afternoon tea and we know that those workers are now considerably worse off than what they used to be when covered by the award now that is a very good example of why this sort of schedule of protection is needed to <.>pr protect and promote the conditions and wages of the employees in the er retail industry now as i've said what this provision shows and the position that the national party has taken it really does highlight the difference between the two parties on this issue it highlights that labour recognises the need to protect disadvantaged workers and it highlights the national party position that they talk about not having intervention but what they really mean is that they don't want to have intervention to protect workers and mister speaker i am very pleased <&>29:00 that this bill provides a schedule of protection it shows the very real difference between the introduction of this legislation under a labour government and the last <,> saturday trading legislation that was introduced by a national government where there were no worker protections and i think that the national party should be ashamed of itself for not supporting the schedule of protections that will apply to the working people <&>29:19 <&>end of Elizabeth Tennet's talk