By: dave
“Oh good god. That means babysitters and paper boys would now become employees.” is this legislation fair on 17-year old babysitters? Does it mean that parents have to pay ACC levies if they hire a...
View ArticleBy: Harriet
C’mon David, how can a 12yld work and babysit at the same time……and on a fucken road? I don’t think the union should be dealing with these matters – but the police!
View ArticleBy: m@tt
“Very sad, but kids die in accidents. Some fall down drains. Others get hit by cars. Each loss is a tragedy.” True, but when it happens because the child was doing something to benefit an employer, who...
View ArticleBy: bhudson
Does this mean parents have to pay their babysitters annual leave and sick pay also? What about statutory holidays? Is there a greater ACC levy for the child mowing lawns over the one at the mercy of...
View ArticleBy: annie
Forcing kids into an employee situation encourages passivity – the freedom and sense of responsibility and control of contract work would be lost – possibly the most valuable lesson the kids are...
View ArticleBy: Cato
Writing as a Roman Catholic – can I just say how ashamed I am of the way Caritas operates in this country.
View ArticleBy: gazzmaniac
I thought this was an April Fools Day joke, then I remembered that it’s December.
View ArticleBy: Reid
If you have a look at the author’s organisation’s website, you find powerful madness: http://www.caritas.org.nz/ e.g....
View ArticleBy: Monique Watson
Well I routinely leave my 8 yr old at home for short periods of time, Harriet. We used to live in Johnsonville and my son would run down to the dairy all the time at the age of 5 through to 7. He’d go...
View ArticleBy: wreck1080
I’d not let a 6 year old do a paper run with a 12 yr old. 6 years old, you can’t judge traffic speed & distance. You are allowed to let a kid walk home alone from school , but, not allowed to be...
View ArticleBy: Reid
if you don’t learn money skills young, you end up bludging off the state. That’s the idea Monique. That’s the whole idea.
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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?...
View ArticleBy: 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...
View ArticleBy: 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,...
View ArticleBy: 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” …...
View ArticleBy: 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.
View ArticleBy: 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...
View ArticleBy: 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....
View ArticleBy: 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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