"Hours-based accrual has the potential to achieve a much greater focus on simplicity. “While shifting to hours-based accrual may require drafting a fundamentally different Bill, I believe investing the time and effort to do this will deliver superior improvements to both employers and employees."

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[–] Dave 2 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Not sure if you linked the right thing, I just watched a nice announcement on toll roads, but yeah the holidays act is so complicated there are many government organisations (and private) that have had to pay millions in back pay for screwing it up.

There's also this weird accrual system where if you leave you get paid accrued leave but officially you can't use that leave if you stay employed until it ticks over to a new year and you get all of it at once. Of course many employers let you use accrued leave, but also many don't.

[–] GGNZ 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It was the live announcement url, Looks like they use the same url for other live broadcasts, I have updated it now.

[–] Dave 2 points 1 month ago

Cool, thanks. Interesting that feedback on their new simplified changes had feedback from some that it was more complex and had higher compliance costs than the current bill.

I guess one challenge is that as bad as the current bill is now, all the current payroll software handles it OK, so any change will cause short term compliance costs. So minor changes aren't enough, they need to find enough benefit in changing to bill to justify the nationwide software update costs.

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