Another cop-out by the Nats

[Skyryder]

if you dont like it here fuck off somewhere else

Bit uptight are we not. Try the ignore button if you can not handle my critism of Key and the Nats. Shit I put up with so much when Labour were in. Never told anyone to fuck off.

Skyryder

[Oakie]

... Labour and they gave something real for once that national have never done , I talk about 4 weeks annual leave...

Well you say that they 'gave' you something but it was actually employers who pay for it. Easy to give people stuff when you don't actually pay for it. Having said that though ... I do enjoy my extra week.

[yungatart]

Then maybe its how your contract is worded that is the problem , thats something you have to take up with your employer, new laws cant benefit 100% of the people 100% of the time and no amount of laws can protect you from a shit employer , there is such a thing as good will and good sense and the government cant force that on your employer , maybe you can get happyness in the fact that your friends or loved ones benefit from the 4 weeks leave law

Not exactly...I have 12 weeks leave throughout the year...only 4 of it is paid, the rest is unpaid.
The point is, labour gave everyone 4 weeks leave. I already had that, but because they didn't state that it was an extra week's leave, I lost my long service leave.
BTW, my employer is the government....

[Oakie]

Yep. It's all in the wording:
"Four weeks leave after x years service" and you may miss out.
"An additional week's leave after x years service" and you're fine.