Paul TamathaTAMATHA PAUL (Green—Wellington Central): Thanks Mr Speaker. I'm really glad to follow my eloquent sister Hana-Rawhiti here today to oppose this bill in front of us. I've heard members shouting the whole time I've been here about how there is evidence for what they're proposing but we know that there is not. When you press them on where they got their evidence from they come back and say they've talked to employers but it's clear they haven't talked to any workers about what they're actually doing and I wonder if that's because those members only ever ask to speak to the manager instead of speaking to the workers that serve them—that bring them their coffees and serve them their food. To me this bill just emphasises the fact that this Government hates the people that carry the country on their backs.The one thing I want to talk about is the effect of this bill on workers' rights and the rights of all workers to be able to be in a working environment that is safe and free from discrimination. I want to talk about the hundreds of young people that have taken to the streets of Wellington because they face discrimination sexual violence harm and harassment in their workplace particularly around times like this: summer times Christmas times. When you're at a Christmas party and your employer gets a little bit too drunk and makes a move on you what are you going to do if you're in your first 90 days? You can't do anything. You can't take a personal grievance. You can't do anything about that and this is the kind of effect that this kind of bill will have.Sam Uffindell: You can't sexually harass people. Of course you can push back against that.TAMATHA PAUL: What—are you saying that victims of sexual violence should just go through the justice system that does not centre the rights of survivors? It doesn't. Anyway.The second thing that I want to focus on is discrimination for the way that people look and the way that they think. People getting let go for what they look like—we've heard about that today. You can be fired for something as small as the colour of your hair if you have tattoos if you say the wrong thing while you're in the smoko room. You can be let go because—guess what!—it's completely arbitrary and it's up to your employer to make up those rules. You are no longer protected by the same rights as everybody else. This is not the type of working environment that any young person wants to find themselves in and it's another reason that people in my generation are going to go off to Australia because they're going to be paid better they're going to have better working conditions and they're going to feel safe at work.There is no evidence behind this. It's another cruel blow to workers after this Government just scrapped fair pay agreements right before Christmas. The worst thing is the members across the House can't even give the basic decency of explaining why you're doing what it is. I've been sitting here; you've been giving 30-second speeches sometimes—30 seconds is the only decency that you're giving to workers about why you're taking their rights away. You can't even give a fair and robust debate about what you're doing and you don't have any evidence to back it either.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Maureen Pugh): Please don't bring the Speaker into the debate.TAMATHA PAUL: Well that's all I've got to say anyway. Thank you Madam Speaker. Kia ora.