Seymour DavidDAVID SEYMOUR (Leader—ACT): Thank you very much Madam Chair. To the Minister the Hon Iain Lees-Galloway I'd like to direct a few questions about labour and employment starting with the Recognised Seasonal Employer scheme—or RSE. What sort of thinking does he have? There's already been quite a lot of difficulty with the caps with the allocation of quota and with people in the horticultural industry getting enough workers under the status quo. That's going to be complicated somewhat by the borders being closed although it's notable that many of the countries that people come from under the RSE scheme have no COVID-19 and could potentially join a New Zealand bubble. So I just wonder if the Minister could tell us what he has in mind. Has he had in mind the future of the RSE scheme—both the pre-existing issues and those that continue?I've had a request from a number of employers about WorkSafe. Under the current circumstances we've got a kind of perfect storm of fast-changing and often poorly understood rules for operating under changing alert levels with changing definitions almost day by day sometimes. They're enforced by WorkSafe but there is no WorkSafe independent complaints authority analogous to the Independent Police Conduct Authority for the Police. I know people are worried about WorkSafe coming into their business and potentially shutting them down for things that aren't clearly defined in law so I wonder if the Minister on behalf of the Government can comment on accountability for WorkSafe and what laws they should be following. I noticed that the Minister mentioned fair pay agreements—in other words trying to negotiate wages for entire sectors at a nationwide level. I just ask the Minister: has he really thought it through? This is a time when we have enormous amounts of dislocation—people losing their jobs because whole industries are being affected such as tourism and shifting into new industries. Has he really thought through whether this is the best time to put in place more rigid employment laws that make it harder for people to enter a closed shop and change their job in order that they can support their family? Is this really the best time to be talking about introducing fair pay agreements?In a similar vein the minimum wage changes. Already before the latest increase on 1 April already before this crisis we had a situation where New Zealand's minimum wage was one of the highest in the OECD compared with the median or average wages. That matters because the higher it is compared with other wages the more people get left out. Already the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment's advice at the time of the increase being proposed was 6500 jobs wouldn't be created because of the minimum wage increase. Now I'd put it to the Minister that actually the situation will be worse than that because unfortunately the economic slowdown means wages in general will fall and the minimum wage as a percentage of the median or average wage will be higher already and higher still because of this latest increase.I just ask the Minister: does he really believe that it is the best time to be increasing a minimum wage when wages up and down the country sadly may fall due to a reduction in job opportunities because of the economic crisis that we're facing? Does he really think that's the best time? Yes we know that we want people to be paid more but the funny thing about a minimum wage is that it's never stopped an employer paying more when they can afford to do it. What it does do is it bans employers from employing people when the only way they can afford to do it is below a certain level. I'd ask the Minister: is this really the best time to be raising the minimum wage?Finally and this is perhaps tangentially related but very important to his portfolio responsibilities: does this Government have the machinery in action to upskill and retrain people rapidly? People talk about 100000 jobs lost in tourism—I hope not. What is this Government's plan to ensure that people can rapidly pick up the right skills to get them into the right job? It's going to have to happen a lot faster than it does in normal times if we're going to give people the opportunity to get into work and support themselves and their families.With those questions I'll take my seat. Thank you very much in advance for the Minister's answers.