Posts by Sacha
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Oh and the Greens at least ran a quick survey of 40 GPs.
25 / 40 said not today
12 / 40 said today
3 / 40 said we may be able to squeeze you in1 day wait to see doctor at 12 places
2 day wait to see doctor at 2 places
4 day wait to see doctor at 1 place8 / 40 doctors had closed their books to new patients
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Just the usual pattern for these clowns of announcing policy without first checking it can work.
General Practice New Zealand chairwoman Bev O'Keefe said the change could put pressure on medical centres.
"The issue for general practice is how we accommodate all those people who need to claim medical certificates because they will need to be seen and assessed which means they are going to impact on what is already the heavy workload of general practice.
"One thing we are not happy to do is to furnish medical certificates without seeing people because that's just hearsay."
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Dr O'Keefe said another practical issue would be whether people would be able to get the appointment within three days of taking a sick day and may need to take time off work to do it."There are some logistic issues around that. but I guess that's something we have to address because if this is going to become the law then we need to make sure that people can in fact get access to the medical certificates that they require when they need them and that is going to put some pressure on the system."
That's OK, I'm sure they can fire some health policy or childcare workers to make up the shortfall in funds. Or maybe this is the part of the policy that they'll back down from so people don't notice them keeping the rest?
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The "evidence" appears to have further basic flaws, says Frogblog.
The quantitative research using the Department of Labour’s employer database involved an initial short phone call, with a request to complete a follow-up on-line or postal survey.
But only 23% of the 3352 employers the DoL attempted to contact actually completed the follow-up survey, and those who did were self-selected.
The sampling bias introduced by that selection method makes the quantitative research almost worthless – employers with strong views supportive of trial periods are obviously going to be more likely to respond.
This govt decided against proper monitoring when they introduced the policy (and officials advised it would be hard to make sense of) and now their acolytes are complaining on blogs that those who oppose it aren't producing evidence. Reminiscent of Thatcher eliminating poverty data - problem, what problem?
However, a regular commenter from the right on The Standard makes a good point.
Surely one needs to question the Unions strategy over all of this. They knew National would eventually make the 90 day Bill available to all employers. They disagreed with it when it was first implemented and clearly stated they’d have a name and shame record kept. Were they all that naive that they the Unions simply forgot about it all?
Because with National indeed making the 90 day fire-at-will available to all employers You would think the Unions would actually show evidence of how troubling this will be for employees. And while I support the 90-day law I have no doubt many employers abused the system. Hence, why the fuck don’t the Unions have more evidence about such an abuse.
Of course banning unions from workplaces unless employers agree will be a good way to prevent any of those 'worse work stories' getting out.
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Oh and this by the Herald's employment law columnist may interest Graeme:
However, the practical reality is that if an employer wants to hire an employee and include a trial period in the employment agreement, and the employee refuses to consent to the inclusion of the trial period, the employer is unlikely proceed with the offer and instead, make an offer to another applicant who is willing to agree to a trial period.
So an applicant can specify they don't want a trial period in their employment agreement - but they may not get the role.
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You do need to be a donor or fellow traveller as well
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I include the meat & wool sectors amongst the retards
Then you'll guess where the demand for sick day crackdowns comes from.
Mr Key said this issue had been raised with him, and it affected the meat industry.
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For the record, I totally agree with what Isabel just wrote
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The word "generalising" was meant to be a clue #sheesh
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I think I'm genetically programmed to advise
Generalising, it's how we blokes are inclined to respond. Sometimes very useful, other times the other person just wants to feel heard and understood. Especially when they're a woman.
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Wibble
The mental gymnastics required to make libertarian lite beliefs fit the real world are quite awesome to behold.