Fair pay for all workers especially now that times are really tough.

I just want my kids to have the same earning power I did when I was starting out

Almost all of what Seventh Labour/Greens Collaboracy* government has done must remain … Natural Ethics requires this …


Citizens have a moral duty to obey JUST Laws, and a moral obligation to resist unjust Laws." (or W2TE) …


~ Martin Luther King Jnr

I was one of the lucky ones , due to collective bargaining

I’m an old woman of 80 years.

However I believe that every person is of greater value than even the current minimum wage and to try to reduce that minimum is nothing short of criminal on the part of those who are willing to do it.

Our grandparents worked for 8 hour weeks and fair pay. Let us honor them by retaining fair pay.

These people deserve to be paid much higher, especially in a cost of living crisis

I am a cleaner. I currently get the fair pay agreement, and so do other cleaners. It means we get compensated fairly for the hard work and effort we put in. If this gets taken away from us that won’t be good, it means a lot of cleaners will have to resort to working more and more hours just to keep up.

Back in the 1990 national introduced the employment contracts act. The most devisive act to be introduced into parliament. We are now in our 70s but back then any pay agreements that we had with my husband’s employer flew out the window. He worked for a well branded transport company. When the company sold the transport side of the company they sold it to a not so well branded side of the transport industry. After a time he went from being a salaried employee to a jack of all trades and one who lost all his self esteem was taken from him. Then the company crumbled. He was made redundant, no talk of a severance pay just a don’t come Monday. Engaging a lawyer was the best thing we did. Because of the employment contracts act he was denied a pay increase on his salary for 5 years. This was at a time when we were planning our retirement for a change of lifestyles. This was after 35 years in the transport industry. He didn’t know anything else. By ditching the fair pay agreements legislated for by labour what is national going to replace it with…..An other disaster such as the employment contract act that will favour employers and not the people they are employing. This can never be allowed to happen.

The fact that some of our neighbors/friends and family members have to work multiple jobs to afford to live while the new government is talking about tax cuts for landlords and other high income people is quite frankly disgusting. Let’s look after the wealthy and forget the poor, disgusting. Shame on this government.

FPAs restore the balance between the business and the worker. To remove them is to fail the workers, the backbone of society

I work in a High School as a Science Technician and have benefited from the Fare Pay agreement, my husband is a bus driver and has long hours and low pay, he is still working at 71 years so he will miss out if they abolish this amazingly wonderful route to a fair wage for his work.

Liz HILLIAR

The idea that ‘fair pay’ is not part of any business leaders agenda is obscene, let alone when it is a concept that is seen as disposable by those who earn a significant salary from the taxes we the workers, pay. It comes from the same deluded mind set that thinks landlords will offer fairer rents because they are offered extra income from their assets.

I doubt this government is putting money aside for the extra fleet of ambulances that may well be needed to be stationed at the bottom of the cliffs in anticipation of the swell of numbers who fall.

I remember how much we ALL relied on our supermarket workers during the pandemic. They bravely kept going to work so everyone could still feed their families. With the rising cost of living, I’d like to think these workers will be able to keep earning enough to feed THEIR own families – we may need them to be there for us again, during our next time of crisis. Fair pay agreements is the mechanism to make sure that happens.

The Bus industry has always been the poor relations when it comes to negotiating for wages. The way some contracts are set, staff are on site for their shift, up to 60 hours per week, yet only receive 40 to 45 hours pay. The culprit is where those employees that have a broken shift, where they do 4 hours then are signed off for 4 hours then reinstated to complete the remaining part of the shift. The staff member remains on site as it is too far to go home, and then return to the work site. Instead of being paid right through the shift at the appropiate rate, the employee receives just a pitifull allowance for the 4 hour book off. I have done wage negotiations several times, and one of the other main themes is to try and cut back the hours Monday to Friday to some shifts of 7 hours, and then roster them two days off duty and then roster them weekend work with straight shifts of up to 12 hours to bring them into line and justify the hours under the terms of the contract. Fair pay agreements are a step forward, not the total solution. I also point out that the Council Of Trade unions has known about the problems with the bus drivers this for many years going back to 2005.

Replace fair wage agreements with unfair wage agreements

This means so much as a woman , in my 60s- I want all women to have this basic right.

It is just and decent that people receive a decent rate of pay.

Have we gained a government that is only for the rich, rather than for the working people of our land?

What a shocking first action!

Fair pay is fundamental human right & entitlement.It’s about equity for one’s labour.

Fair pay for hours worked and on standby or on call

Hospo workers NEED this!

I work as a school bus driver and have done so for the best part of the last twenty years. As such I do NOT get paid in the school holidays nor do I get paid for any statutory public holidays that fall within the school holidays (so I don’t get paid for New Years Day, Day after New years, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Christmas Day and Boxing Day, and a couple of others that I can’t think of right now), yet I am expected to return each term to continue picking up children and taking them to school and home again. I do not get paid for waiting when it’s not worth the travel time to go home between runs – for instance, today I am in the secondary depot as I had a tech run at lunchtime and there is no point (and it’s nearly 40 km away) to go home, even if there was a work car available for me to make that run as I am not at the main depot where my car is parked. I work for a company that has many different things it does (school runs, charters, shuttles, urban/timetable), and I get paid a lower rate than those who drive urban runs for the same company – and I work out of the same depot as they do.

I work as a school bus driver and have done so for the best part of the last twenty years. As such I do NOT get paid in the school holidays nor do I get paid for any statutory public holidays that fall within the school holidays (so I don’t get paid for New Years Day, Day after New years, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Christmas Day and Boxing Day, and a couple of others that I can’t think of right now), yet I am expected to return each term to continue picking up children and taking them to school and home again. I do not get paid for waiting when it’s not worth the travel time to go home between runs – for instance, today I am in the secondary depot as I had a tech run at lunchtime and there is no point (and it’s nearly 40 km away) to go home, even if there was a work car available for me to make that run as I am not at the main depot where my car is parked. I work for a company that has many different things it does (school runs, charters, shuttles, urban/timetable), and I get paid a lower rate than those who drive urban runs for the same company – and I work out of the same depot as they do.