What’s your opinion on the Holidays act moving to an Hours based accrual System?

“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.”

  • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz
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    2 months ago

    given the government legislating this its underlying motivation is to screw things back in favour of the employer and…

    … Reduce costs. Nothing about this is to make it fairer for employees with tricky calculations, it’s to make compliance easier cheaper and avoid having to back pay for mistakes.

    • TagMeInSkipIGotThis@lemmy.nz
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      2 months ago

      Yes, and in an employer-employee relationship where almost all the power is held by one party to the relationship one parties’ “mistake” is another’s deliberate obfuscation & hiding of entitlements.