You might have seen a few quotes emerging from the National Party conference about the impact of the 90 Day fire at will law. This information comes from a Department of Labour report, hard copies of which, it seems, have been circulating at the conference, despite it not yet being publicly available.
Even if it is released publicly after the PMs speech, having a report generated by a public service department circulating at a Party conference before it is available to the rest of the public is a shocking breach of public service rules. This from a party who campaigned on de-politicising the public service. All worthy of a letter to the State Services Commissioner I think.
My understanding that this IS available – it just wasnt published on their website as yet.
The – the Civil service became extremely politicised under the Labour Government. I can if you want give numerous examples. Maybe National are just carrying on from where labour left off?
I am not necessarily agreeing with what National did – and there may be more to this than what you are suggesting.
Yeah right!
@Chris. Do you know how it was made “available” and to whom?
I agree it is somewhat worrying. It is also concerning that it appears the discussion in it only looks at employer benefits although it does clearly show it has had a disastrous effect on employees with 22% being fired under it. Also wondering why it doesn’t go into the impact of labour stagnation from people not changing jobs due to the risk created by it.
Does the report show how many of the total jobs captured in the survey were created as a result of the policy? ie. that they would not have been available anyway?
@Gipper 40% of respondents to their survey said it influenced their decision however this survey of course was dealing with people who were using the policy so it is far from representative and the report states no extra positions may have been created.
I wonder what proportion of all new jobs have been created as a result of the policy, I doubt many… the government’s net achievement in this area is an embarrassment.