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  <&>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</&>
  

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      provides transport for workers who are working these unsocial
      hours

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      now that's a very important provision

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      i know the national party doesn't agree with it

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      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</&>

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      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

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      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

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      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

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      there was the example of video shops

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      now video shops used to be classed as being under the
      appropriate retail award

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      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

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      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 <O>tut</O> was the was er the normal er
      double time or treble time or whatever penalty pay rates were
      applicable

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      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

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      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 <O>voc</O>
      third of what they used to receive

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      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

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      and we know that those workers are now considerably worse off
      than what they used to be when covered by the award

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      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

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      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

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      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

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      but what they really mean is that they don't want to have
      intervention to protect workers

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      and mister speaker i am very pleased <&>29:00</&> that this bill
      provides a schedule of protection

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      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

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      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</&>
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