Boyack RachelRACHEL BOYACK (Labour—Nelson): Thank you so much Madam Chair for the call. It's wonderful to have a call given to the South Island so I appreciate the solidarity for the South Island Madam Chair and I also congratulate you on both of your roles here in this House.I have a number of—I was about to call them Supplementary Order Papers so forgive me for the old terminology. We now have Amendment Papers and I have three of these on Part 2 to speak to.I'll begin talking about—now I understand it has a number and a letter on it so again it's new terminology that we're using. My amendment inserts after the word repealed" in clause 5 "except in relation to grocery supermarket industry may be concluded and regulated by the provisions of the Act and will not be affected by this bill." What my Amendment Paper specifically speaks to is the supermarket fair pay agreement which is well advanced. We know that there is a very large group of supermarket workers who are affected by this legislation and by the original Act and then by the repeal bill that we are debating in the Chamber tonight.I want to speak to some comments around productivity specifically in relation to supermarket workers and what I have is a copy of the FIRST Union submission on the original bill. One of the comments that FIRST Union has made which I think members opposite do need to actually look at is that while we do have a productivity challenge in New Zealand we have a bigger challenge in terms of wage growth. Wage growth has not actually kept up with the small productivity gains that we have had since 1991 and since the introduction of the Employment Contracts Act.One of the comments that I thought was really useful and absolutely speaks to my experience having worked with supermarket workers many of whom are on low wages is that workers who are worried about money stressed about money—often I met with workers who hadn't had enough to eat that day—are not going to be productive workers. So the connection between wages and the ability for people to pay their rent pay for fuel feed themselves and not be worried about whether the mortgage is going to be paid this week and the stress and the concern that that gives them—these are real-life issues that are faced by supermarket workers.FIRST Union in their submission—and the reason I raised this submission tonight is that because we have had a process through urgency without going through select committee process over the past few days I have spoken to a number of supermarket workers many of whom have given me written contributions that they want me to make on their behalf tonight about what the repeal of fair pay agreements mean to them. So I come back to my Amendment Paper and why I'm specifically wanting to add a statement after the clause here around ensuring that that supermarket fair pay agreement is concluded.Now I do have another couple of Amendment Papers in relation to Part 2. The first one would insert new clause 5B notwithstanding clause 5A stating that any fair pay agreement currently under negotiation will have its term fixed by the Employment Relations Authority and will still come into force. The reason for my amendment of this nature is to reflect the work that has been done but reflect as well that many of these workers who are covered by the agreements that are currently being negotiated do represent vulnerable workers. And there will be real benefit to us as we've talked about bus drivers for example. We've had a significant issue attracting people into working as bus drivers. In our region Nelson-Tasman we've had to bring in a number of migrant bus drivers to work for the new bus service.One of the things that we can do is ensure that those fair pay agreements which have been brought because there was a genuine valid reason there around the need for higher wages—[Time expired]"