Although the association has strongly lobbied for it to be revised, Building Services Contractors New Zealand (BSC NZ) has described planned changes to Part 6A of the Employment Relations Act as “disappointing” and likely to make cleaning workers even more vulnerable.. ‘Part 6A aims to prevent groups of low paid workers from being replaced by cheaper contractors or having their pay and conditions [...]
Crest Clean managing director Grant McLauchlan (photo: www.nzherald.co.nz) A contract cleaning organisation is investing its own hard earned dollars in high profile lobbying on behalf of its industry. New Zealand based Crest Clean has launched of a ‘tongue-in-cheek campaign featuring a cartoon of a Minister on a question mark’, which poses a serious question about the lack of a decision [...]
New Zealand based Crest Clean is currently considering an appeal after a ruling by the Christchurch Employment Court in the matter of Doran vs Crest Commercial Clean Limited. The contractor, in a 22 June announcement, claimed ‘it is a direct result of the poorly drafted Part 6A of the Employment Relations Act 2000’. “The decision is not only disappointing for both [...]
According to a 14 May article by Voxy.co.nz the New Zealand Government is being called to fix Part 6A in Labour law changes. ‘Any changes to the industrial relations laws must address the mess resulting from Part 6A in the Employment Relations Act 2000 says New Zealand’s leading privately owned cleaning and hygiene company CrestClean.’ “We support Prime Minister John [...]
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