The Workplace Relations Minister Brooke van Velden has announced plans to reintroduce pay deductions for partial strikes.
A partial strike is where the employee is still doing some form of their work. Employers have been banned from reducing the worker’s pay since the previous Labour-led government removed that power in 2018.
ACT’s van Velden said she recognised the entitlement of employees to strike, but the disruption caused “should not continue without consequence”.
I’m a bit confused myself actually. I can understand pushing back against practices like deliberately working slowly, or bus drivers not collecting fares, if you’re at work and being paid.
But following the rules to the letter?