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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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[–] liv 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They would have to cap ACC sick leave though or you would end up with people like me on the books, and 80% of my former salary, or anyone' really, is a lot more than 50% of minimum wage.

I guess if it was built into ACC levies as well it would work though.

[–] Dave 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You could probably adjust the levys, but maybe you wouldn't do 80% initially. But if you did, you'd probably disrupt the income protection insurance industry. I wouldn't mind paying higher ACC levy's and not having to pay income protection insurance.

[–] liv 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What you could do to avoid too much disruption is adjust the levies and then cover everyone for a percentage but with max and mins.

The people who have income protection probably have a large overlap with those who have health insurance. They tend to be higher income, so if the cap were low, they would still need income protection insurance.

That way people who are in new jobs, and casual contract workers, are still covered.

[–] Dave 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yes that would be a more palatable way to do it. If it can replace benefits for some people the savings could be fed into the scheme as well, to limit the levy increase.

[–] liv 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

That's a good point. I think long term it could even save money. So many people go into work with a bad back or whatever and damage themselves much worse.