Posts by nzlemming
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Hard News: Moving targets, in reply to Dismal Soyanz,
The section you cite is about taxation. Umm ok. Minor detail.
The “contract” in the first quote refered to is an employment contract.Your reading is flawed, I think.
A member of Parliament holds a statutory office. Members are not (except for certain tax purposes) employees in an employment relationship, nor are they subject to any contractual obligations in regard to their duties.
This says that the only time that members are considered in anything vaguely resembling an employment relationship is for tax purposes and, even then, it’s a very limited consideration. If there are no “contractual obligations” then there is no contract, not even an implied one. First year law.
No one is talking about retroactively cutting salaries. You raise a classic strawman here. Phil says:
Suppose a person stands for Parliament, becomes an MP, and then the Remuneration Authority produces a determination halving MPs’ salaries, there is not a damn thing the MP can do. They cannot sue.
Nothing retroactive there, and yes – the RA has exactly the authority it needs to do that. They just never have before, so it’s fair to say it’s unlikely that they will. But they can and, if you think otherwise, you have not understood how they work. I recommend you to this.
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Hard News: Moving targets, in reply to Ross Mason,
If you pay people in high places peanuts, you invite influence.
There is already influence. It's called "election contributions".
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Hard News: Do you like what we've done…, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
Yeah, but that's because we're old and our eyes are going ;-)
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Hard News: New Old Left?, in reply to Kyle Matthews,
Be fun to watch, though...
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So you do. That's useful
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I think I preferred a date/timestamp on a post rather than "About x hours ago", which I can work out for myself. #grumble
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There's a farm for people as funny as you, Rich...
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Please! Laws stories require health warnings...
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I hope they nail him. Whatever I think of the Hobbit War, his "interview" was truly appalling.
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Well we do have a witch-finder general at TV3 - Dunkin' Garner...
But is he a donut?