Kemp Takutai TarshTAKUTAI TARSH KEMP (Te Pāti Māori—Tāmaki Makaurau): Tēnā koe Madam Chair. Tēnā tātou e te Whare. There are just a few pātai from us here at Te Pāti Māori. The first one is around 90-day trials.When this Government announced that it would be reintroducing 90-day trials the reason they gave was that it would make it easier for businesses to hire people which would get more people off the benefit and into work. But research commissioned by the Treasury in 2016 found no evidence that the ability to use trial periods significantly increases firms' overall hiring and no evidence that the policy increased the probability that a new hire by a firm was a disadvantaged job seeker. It also found that the main benefit of the policy was a decrease in dismissal costs for firms while many employees faced increased uncertainty about their job security for three months after being hired. In other words the 90-day trial policy is not about making it easier to hire workers; it's about making it easier to fire them. It's not about protecting workers; it's about protecting unfair employers from any consequences.Other research shows that weak protection against dismissal can also lead to poorer production and less innovation It is Māori Pasifika rangatahi and whānau haua who bear the brunt of this 90-day trial policy. All evidence suggests that this policy will make life worse for Māori and anyone in Aotearoa who doesn't run a large and exploitative business.My question is: what evidence does the Minister have that shows that reducing 90-day trials will make it easier for businesses to hire people and lead to more people off the benefit and into work?Fair pay agreements—our pātai: how will the removal of fair pay agreements support Māori workers when the median hourly wage for Māori is $24.98 compared to $28.01 for Pākehā and when Māori are overrepresented in jobs where low pay job security health and safety and upskilling are significant issues?Health and safety are problems in industries like forestry farming trucking and fisheries—often kill Māori at work. Minimum industry-wide standards would provide a baseline and keep our people safe regardless of whether they are a member of a union or not.Minimum wage cuts—I also have a few questions regarding changes to the minimum wage introduced this year. So the pātai is: does the Minister accept that only increasing the minimum wage by 2 percent when inflation is at 4.7 percent is a cut to the minimum wage in real terms? Pātai tuarua: what is the Minister's response to the fact that this effective cut to the minimum wage will increase child poverty rates given that 64 percent of families in poverty are in work? Does she accept that this decision will not just hurt workers but will cost the Government more in the long run including through higher payments and tax credits and higher support for rental payments? How are workers meant to keep up with rising food and rent costs when the Government is cutting their wages in real terms? Will the Minister commit to delivering annual increases to the minimum wage that keep up with the rising costs to ensure workers have a livable income to support their whānau; if not why not? And how can the Minister stand by taking money from hundreds of thousands of workers during a cost of living crisis? Kia ora tātou.