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	<title>The Standard &#187; 90 day bill</title>
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	<description>The New Zealand labour movement used to have its own newspaper. A group of us thought that now might be a good time for it to be digitally reborn: The Standard v2.0 - now in a new format The Standard v3.0</description>
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		<title>&#8220;Monitoring&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Standard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[spin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[90 day bill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fire at will]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kate wilkinson]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[No Right Turn exposes ineffectual government spin on the fire at will act. The select committee procedure would have improved the bill. Perhaps to the point that it at least lived up to the spin. Earlier in the month, Minister of Labour Kate Wilkinson warned employers not to abuse their new 90-day fire at will ...]]></description>
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		<title>No ReStart for Fire at Will even if unfair</title>
		<link>http://thestandard.org.nz/no-restart-for-fire-at-will-even-if-unfair/</link>
		<comments>http://thestandard.org.nz/no-restart-for-fire-at-will-even-if-unfair/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:43:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John A</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So much for all National&#8217;s fine words about probation periods and job creation. Today&#8217;s Dominion reports that ReStart will not be available for &#8220;those who were sacked, including those who lost their jobs under the new 90-day probation law.&#8221; So the conditions for three months &#8220;probation&#8221; are that you cannot ask for reasons for dismissal ...]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Class divide</title>
		<link>http://thestandard.org.nz/class-divide/</link>
		<comments>http://thestandard.org.nz/class-divide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 03:08:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>IrishBill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[activism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[john key]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[90 day bill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fire at will]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[workers party]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thestandard.org.nz/?p=6587</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Taken a matter of minutes ago, the Workers Party protest outside John Key&#8217;s multimillion dollar Parnell mansion. Just to remind you that we&#8217;ve just seen a man worth tens of millions of dollars take work rights off a whole bunch of people who earn minimum wage. In case you&#8217;re wondering what they&#8217;re holding up, it&#8217;s ...]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>117</slash:comments>
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		<title>Arrogant and out of touch</title>
		<link>http://thestandard.org.nz/arrogant-and-out-of-touch/</link>
		<comments>http://thestandard.org.nz/arrogant-and-out-of-touch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:25:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[90 day bill]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[manawatu standard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[out of touch]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Manawatu Standard has a good op-ed piece today on how National has squandered its honeymoon with its arrogant and out-of-touch behaviour on the fire at will bill. The National party rose to power on the back of, among other things, scathing accusations that a supremely arrogant Labour party had &#8220;lost touch&#8221; with the people. ...]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>55</slash:comments>
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		<title>Some questions for Kate</title>
		<link>http://thestandard.org.nz/some-questions-for-kate/</link>
		<comments>http://thestandard.org.nz/some-questions-for-kate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 07:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[national/act government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[workers' rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[90 day bill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fire at will]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kate wilkinson]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thestandard.org.nz/?p=6292</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Kate Wikinson, John Key&#8217;s hapless Minister of Labour, has told NZPA the public shouldn&#8217;t get to have their say on the fire at will bill because, apparently, we already had our chance with Wayne Mapp&#8217;s private member&#8217;s bill back in 2006. This argument is complete bollocks, and she knows it. Perhaps that&#8217;s why she refused ...]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>Spin-busting: Probationary periods</title>
		<link>http://thestandard.org.nz/spin-busting-probationary-periods/</link>
		<comments>http://thestandard.org.nz/spin-busting-probationary-periods/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 01:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[national/act government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[workers' rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[90 day bill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Employment Relations Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fire at will]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[probationary periods]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thestandard.org.nz/?p=6279</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[National has been working hard to push the idea that its fire at will policy introduces a &#8216;probationary period&#8217; of employment. This is not true. The Employment Relations Act already allows for probationary employment periods, it simply requires that workers are given the right to fair process and natural justice. All National&#8217;s proposed legislation would ...]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>Bringing it home</title>
		<link>http://thestandard.org.nz/bringing-it-home/</link>
		<comments>http://thestandard.org.nz/bringing-it-home/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[national/act government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[workers' rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[90 day bill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ACTU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fire at will]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thestandard.org.nz/?p=6271</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[These ads made by the ACTU to oppose John Howard&#8217;s removal of unfair dismissal rights sure bring home what National&#8217;s fire at will law will mean for working families. No wonder National wants to curtail any real debate by ramming it through under urgency. Part two is here.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>Ramming it through</title>
		<link>http://thestandard.org.nz/ramming-it-through/</link>
		<comments>http://thestandard.org.nz/ramming-it-through/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[workers' rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[90 day bill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fire at will]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thestandard.org.nz/?p=6265</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just been informed that the National/ACT Government has put its 90 day fire at will bill on the Order Paper and could ram it through under urgency as early as tomorrow. This is frankly an astonishing abuse of our democracy. A piece of legislation that will remove basic work rights from hundreds of thousands ...]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>51</slash:comments>
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		<title>Work rights? Gone by Xmas</title>
		<link>http://thestandard.org.nz/work-rights-gone-by-xmas/</link>
		<comments>http://thestandard.org.nz/work-rights-gone-by-xmas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:22:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>IrishBill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[national/act government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[workers' rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[90 day bill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dom post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fire at will]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tracy watkins]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thestandard.org.nz/?p=6243</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tracy Watkins reports that the National/Act government will be taking all work rights from anyone in a new job in a firm with 20 staff or less and they&#8217;re going to do it under urgency. I&#8217;ve heard that the question of whether to proceed with the bill under urgency was still being hotly debated within ...]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>38</slash:comments>
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		<title>Urgency</title>
		<link>http://thestandard.org.nz/urgency/</link>
		<comments>http://thestandard.org.nz/urgency/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 01:38:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rumour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[workers' rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[90 day bill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fire at will]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[nine to noon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[radio nz]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thestandard.org.nz/?p=6224</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[During this morning&#8217;s Nine to Noon politics segment Matthew Hooton was saying how he thought the Government&#8217;s 100-day action plan would only include policies signalled prior to the election when he let slip: &#8220;And I&#8217;m sure while there will be some complaints about one measure&#8230; er&#8230; some measures&#8230;&#8221; I wonder what that one unpopular measure ...]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>50</slash:comments>
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		<title>Turnoff</title>
		<link>http://thestandard.org.nz/turnoff/</link>
		<comments>http://thestandard.org.nz/turnoff/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:37:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cartoons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[workers' rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[90 day bill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mike moreu]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thestandard.org.nz/?p=2446</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: Thanks to commenter T-Rex for reversing the cartoon to show workers taking a disastrous right turn. Far too much time on your hands brother&#8230;]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Sacked</title>
		<link>http://thestandard.org.nz/sacked/</link>
		<comments>http://thestandard.org.nz/sacked/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 04:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[national]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[same old national]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[workers' rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[90 day bill]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thestandard.org.nz/?p=2435</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In perhaps the most unsurprising announcement of the year, National has let slip it&#8217;s going to maintain its 90 day no rights policy, which basically means your boss can sack you for whatever reason he likes within the first 90 days of your employment. Don&#8217;t be fooled by the spin there&#8217;s already a provision for ...]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>94</slash:comments>
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