One more last chance to fix the Holidays Act

One more last chance to fix the Holidays Act
Will some workers get burned by reforms to the Holidays Act? (Image: Getty)
Nikitin Sallee
Workplace Relations Minister Brooke van Velden is breaking the mould with her proposed reforms of the Holidays Act. Will she succeed where previous Governments and more experienced ministers have failed? This is the last in a series of three articles.   “Abandon magical thinking all ye who enter here.”That is the gist of officials’ advice on reforming the Holidays Act, although bureaucratic language is less poetic.A taskforce of employers and unions agreed upon a planned reform left unfinished by the previous Go...

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