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By the rich, for the rich!!!! Why is it the rich will not be able to claim unjustified dismissal but the rest of us can?

Nah I’m all for this. Beyond a certain threshold of income you begin to get into risk-pay where you either perform at or above expectations or you lose your job. For me the question would be where that threshold begins. These days I reckon it should be above $180k, probably closer to $250-300k.
 
By the rich, for the rich!!!! Why is it the rich will not be able to claim unjustified dismissal but the rest of us can?

Not a fan of that. A scheme to allow business owners to make bad decisions, fix the decisions, and the employee loses out.

A better way would be to have some sort of probation period, like new hires have.

(I haven’t read the detail), but I assume someone could be in a role for 50 years and get fired for no reason, without any legal recourse

A lot of those “high paying” leadership roles take a long time to find - a guy I know lost his job and it took a year to find a new one. He would have been better off being overqualified in a lesser role!
 
Not a fan of that. A scheme to allow business owners to make bad decisions, fix the decisions, and the employee loses out.

A better way would be to have some sort of probation period, like new hires have.

(I haven’t read the detail), but I assume someone could be in a role for 50 years and get fired for no reason, without any legal recourse

A lot of those “high paying” leadership roles take a long time to find - a guy I know lost his job and it took a year to find a new one. He would have been better off being overqualified in a lesser role!
What I find interesting is that one of the advocates of this is the NZ Initiative.


My concern would be, how many senior managers will be dismissed before a restructure.... saving a business tens of thousands in redundancy payouts?
 
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What I find interesting is that one of the advocates of this is the NZ Initiative. My concern would be, how many senior managers will be dismissed before a restructure.... saving a business tens of thousands in redundancy payouts?
It truly is an odd carveout

I get you should perform at higher pay levels. But the onus is on the employer as well, to ensure they do their maths when employing someone (or giving them a promotion / raise)
 
Not a fan of that. A scheme to allow business owners to make bad decisions, fix the decisions, and the employee loses out.

A better way would be to have some sort of probation period, like new hires have.

(I haven’t read the detail), but I assume someone could be in a role for 50 years and get fired for no reason, without any legal recourse

A lot of those “high paying” leadership roles take a long time to find - a guy I know lost his job and it took a year to find a new one. He would have been better off being overqualified in a lesser role!
Respect the thoughts but disagree.

Markets can change making those high paying employees no longer obsolete. And employees already wear bad business owner decisions when they are made redundant or the firm goes into liquidation.

If you have a big influence over the success or failure of the business, you should share some of the risk/reward that such a salary entails. Ultimately in most cases employees that add value will be retained and make their position viable.

Someone in that pay bracket would still get an exit/ redundancy payout?
 
It truly is an odd carveout

I get you should perform at higher pay levels. But the onus is on the employer as well, to ensure they do their maths when employing someone (or giving them a promotion / raise)
Devils advocate - Isn’t the onus also on the employee at that level to chose a decent employer with business smarts?

With the best will in the world, when you do a business plan based on projections and growth, things out of your control can wreck the plans.

Isn’t there a case that more employers will take on those riskier business plans if there is this new flexibility and there would be more high paying roles and more economic success stories?
 
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Devils advocate - Isn’t the onus also on the employee at that level to chose a decent employer with business smarts?
Yep, that’s true

But if there is a relationship breakdown between a manager and a staff member, this just puts all the power into the manager’s hand to resolve that breakdown (regardless of who was at fault).

Or say, someone’s in a role and they get a new manager that ends up being a psychopath. That manager can just wield the axe
 
Yep, that’s true

But if there is a relationship breakdown between a manager and a staff member, this just puts all the power into the manager’s hand to resolve that breakdown (regardless of who was at fault).

Or say, someone’s in a role and they get a new manager that ends up being a psychopath. That manager can just wield the axe
if the manager is a psychopath?? Who the hell would want to work for one of them! Anyway, just like a lot of things in life, it’s all about risk-reward - if employees are happy to take home the decent pay then be prepared to earn it.
 
But if there is a relationship breakdown between a manager and a staff member, this just puts all the power into the manager’s hand to resolve that breakdown (regardless of who was at fault).

Or say, someone’s in a role and they get a new manager that ends up being a psychopath. That manager can just wield the axe
I would assume at that pay level the employee skills would be very rare, very hard to replace and highly sought after. They should be adding significant value to the business.

I think there would be very few cases where this is used and in most cases as a last resort due to the cost and inconvenience to the business to replace the person?
 
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By the rich, for the rich!!!! Why is it the rich will not be able to claim unjustified dismissal but the rest of us can?

Seems like a strange thing to bring in?
Don't like that a worker on any kind of money cannot pursue unjustifiable dismissal, seems like a terrible precedent to set.
 
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