Wage shame: Why MIQ cleaners have fallen through the cracks
19 Feb, 2021 12:05 AM
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Minister Chris Hipkins responds to questions regarding wage and incentives for frontline Covid-19 workers.
The staff cleaning New Zealand s quarantine hotels fall into a contractual grey area that leaves many earning the minimum wage, despite the risk involved in the work.
Unite Union national secretary John Crocker says that these contracts currently do not specify what cleaning staff at hotels ought to be paid. The government has proudly announced it is paying all contracted cleaners, security and caterers the living wage, but at this stage this does not include hotel staff, Crocker told the Herald.
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January 26, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The opposition in the Senate on Monday rejected a bill proposing powers for the Pakistan Electronic Media Regularity Authority (Pemra) to look into complaints of violation of contractual obligations by private TV channels.
PPP Parliamentary Leader in the House Sherry Rehman, opposing the bill, alleged: “The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) is going to be used to interfere in media contracts now. It already has a terrible record. Media has no space in Pakistan under this government and Tabahi Sarkar is bent upon suppressing the media and voices of dissent.” The bill, which has been cleared by the relevant Standing Committee twice, was moved in the House by its Chairman PTI Senator Faisal Javed.
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January 26, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The opposition in the Senate on Monday rejected a bill proposing powers for the Pakistan Electronic Media Regularity Authority (Pemra) to look into complaints of violation of contractual obligations by private TV channels.
PPP Parliamentary Leader in the House Sherry Rehman, opposing the bill, alleged: âThe Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) is going to be used to interfere in media contracts now. It already has a terrible record. Media has no space in Pakistan under this government and Tabahi Sarkar is bent upon suppressing the media and voices of dissent.â The bill, which has been cleared by the relevant Standing Committee twice, was moved in the House by its Chairman PTI Senator Faisal Javed.
it basically then really becomes a contractual, we say we get you from point a to point b, and we didn t, therefore here is money and nobody else anybody can file suit at any time. you don t see a basis for it. that is right, never underestimate the creativity of the legal profession. but it is hard for me to see a malaysian airline flying from malaysia to china, almost all of the passengers foreigners, not domestic u.s. citizens. hard for me to see how there is any real likelihood absent finding the plane, that this case could ever end up in u.s. courts. and let s say they go a couple of years or whatever and they do the payouts. and then we find the data boxes and there is something wrong with the engine or something that can be traced to boeing.