Managed isolation and quarantine health and safety committees took months to roll out

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But it will be another month until the worker representatives are properly trained up and have actual legal powers to make the workplaces safer.
A unionist says she had been "terrified" early on for the low-paid - mostly Māori or Pasifika, often older cleaners, and other quarantine workers - when PPE was lacking. But that now, at last, government officials were meeting their legal obligations.
"The time it took to actually get through to them was far too long," said Unite Union's hotel organiser Shanna Reeder.
"It should have been top of the list. It should have been obvious."

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