New Employment Relation Act effective from today
Now your new boss can fire you at will within 90 days. You chose that, you voted for it.
This is what National Party is all about. Like the recent job summit, aimmed to "create jobs", but let's face it, it's just a bad publicity stunt. When you see a group of predominantly white, rich bosses sit around talking about "create and save job", you immediately smells something strange. Aren't they the guys who are responsible for the current situation? In fact, to me, it was more like a discussion on how to save their big fat pay cheques.
My suggestions for this ERA is, refuse to sign any contract that has that 90 days clause in it. Yes I recognise employers need confidence, but 90 days trial period is too long. 30 days is more than enough to see whether a new employee is a lazy bum and lives up to employer's expectations. 90 days is way to long, it just opens a big opportunity for those bad employers out there.
But if you don't have a choice - then sign the contract anyway.
