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By: Elaycee

Surely this isn’t the same Lisa Beech who worked for the Hutt South electorate between 1990 – 1992? And the same Lisa Beech who subsequently worked for Twevor himself? Nah – surely not? 😯...

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By: Viking2

Are the unions that desperate for funds? Really, well with the startling and rapid demise in newspapers being delivered I guess the membership will be fuck all. Have to think of something else to raise...

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By: Kea

I don’t think the union should be dealing with these matters – but the police! I don’t think it is any of their business. If you crave that level of government interference, then I suggest you move to...

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By: Harriet

Kea# “…………”..I don’t think the union should be dealing with these matters – but the police!..” -I don’t think it is any of their business Harriet. …..If you crave that level of government interference,...

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By: burt

You are all missing the point…. This is about employment stats – Labour want to be able to say they have created [x] thousand new jobs by rearranging the deck chairs and reclassifying existing “jobs” …...

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By: Monique Watson

Wreck1080: Kids mature differently. A parent is the only one who can judge what their kids are capable of. In my opinion, fourteen is ridiculous as a designated age that you can leave kids alone.

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By: peterwn

Legislation in recent times stops kids working very early in the morning. Result – paper boys and girls have been laid off and replaced by car driving adults who heave them out of the window and it is...

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By: Cato

Reid – I understand that the Holy See has recently been cracking down hard on the way that nominally Catholic organisations have simply come to mirror bien-pensant left secular advocacy groups....

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By: kowtow

Cato @230 re Caritas etc Couldn’t agree with you more. Large elements of the hierarchy and various other branches appear not too far removed from being agents of the old enemy,the friggen commies....

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By: bringbackdemocracy

Will David Bain head the Paper-boys union?

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By: Tim

The Bill won’t mean that every person who provides labour for hire or reward and who is aged 16 or under will need to be paid the minimum wage because there is no minimum wage for people aged 15 and...

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By: wat dabney

The aim is to politicise every aspect of everyone’s lives. There won’t be anything you can do which is not controlled and regulated by the state.

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By: Dazzaman

My kids wouldn’t take any notice of this sort of thing anyway. The older ones will still bribe their lesser’s with an ice cream to do their runs for them, all the while all of them will moan to their...

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By: Sadu

In my experience most kids are either employees working for supermarkets etc, or they work for cash. I have never heard of this mythical contractor kid who files their own tax return etc. Does such a...

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By: Pauleastbay

Sadu My daughter contracts and has to do the tax thing because she is paid by an agency that has to do the tax thing. Its that bloody tax thing all the time

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By: salt

Jesus, it’s not as if they’re saying paperboys must now be offered pension plans. All they are proposing is that a 12-year-old working for you on a regular basis have the same legal rights as a 16, 17,...

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By: Dirty Rat

So I take it that Farrar wants to ensure that paper boys are self employed, pay their own ACC, and contract Accountants to prepare their IR3’s ? Which of course they wont By that logic Farrar and the...

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By: itstricky

🙂 Hillarious I like the constant “the sky is falling!, the commies are coming!” comments followed by Tim’s simple statement of the actual facts. Followed by …. silence. Nothing like a few facts to get...

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By: Manolo

And to think Labour made a big deal about Peter Dunne taxing paper boys. Rightly so, too. Dunne should keep his sticky fingers out of anyone’s pay packet. It deserves as much condemnation as the...

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By: UglyTruth

<blockquote> My daughter contracts and has to do the tax thing because she is paid by an agency that has to do the tax thing. </blockquote> She's not really contracting if the agency is...

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