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Major change Govt wants to make to workers' sick leave (www.newshub.co.nz)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Xcf456 to c/politics

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Cutting part time workers' sick leave entitlements from the 10 days everyone currently gets to being pro-rated based on how much they work.

*** Also covid vaccines will apparently no longer be free for most people after this month.*** EDIT: this was circulating yesterday, but isn't true so that's good.

And this during the biggest covid wave in 18 months, where hospitals and schools are having to close or reduce capacity because so many staff are sick. What a bunch of ghouls.

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[–] Dave 6 points 5 months ago (7 children)

Let's be fair, this is about the best case outcome we could have hoped for. I was fully expecting a drop back to 5 days.

However, I find it a bit funny their selling argument is that it's too hard for people making payroll software 😆.

[–] Xcf456 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I don't think they deserve any credit for not being even crueler.

But lol yes won't someone think of the payroll developers?! That's been a common complaint across the numerous attempts to sort out the holidays act.

I can't see how this would even help on that in this case, but I am not a software guy. Like isn't this just introducing another category with different rules that you have to account for?

[–] Dave 4 points 5 months ago

Yeah, also not a developer, but it seems the rules for sick days are not complex, it just requires a separate set of logic. i.e. it takes longer but it's not hard.

[–] TagMeInSkipIGotThis 3 points 5 months ago

In my experience as a user of payroll software; I suspect its a combination of things.

Developers could customise the logic for New Zealand's legislation better, but corporations think magically about software and try to buy "out of the box" solutions, even if they don't quite fit right.

Then they rely on HR staff to try to configure their way around logic limitations so it ends up just as kludgy but in a way more reliant on people knowing why something was done some given way than just in the tool.

I've run into stuff you would think is really really simple - like marking the NZ public holidays as not a work day; but if those holidays change - like the addition of Matariki, or you move so you have a new provincial holiday its usually months, years or never that it gets updated.

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