Pillay Lynne: Holidays Amendment Bill — Second Reading In Committee Speaker Recalled In Committee 
Pillay Lynne: Holidays Amendment Bill — Second Reading In Committee Speaker Recalled In Committee 
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LYNNE PILLAY (Labour) 
: 
 I am really pleased to join my colleagues in taking a call. Obviously this is a very important bill— 
Hon Trevor Mallard 
: You cut me down. 
LYNNE PILLAY 
: What was that? 
Hon Member 
: You’re a shocking member cutting me out of the debate like that. 
LYNNE PILLAY 
: Well I know— 
The CHAIRPERSON (Hon Rick Barker) 
: The Chair has sole prerogative on who speaks. The Chair is not shocking. He did not cut that person out. The call has gone to the honourable member Lynne Pillay. 
LYNNE PILLAY 
: Thank you very much Mr Chairperson. I know that you will be very happy to hear a contribution from Mr Mallard again because he makes very good contributions. Perhaps a little bit of camaraderie and team playing around his fellow team members would be very good. 
I return to the bill. As my colleagues have said the name Holidays Amendment Bill is not appropriate. There have been many other suggestions. I know that Darien Fenton and Sue Moroney had one before. Just thinking about it we could call it the “Holidays (Entitlement Repeal) Bill”. Some of my colleagues are being a little bit flippant. Or it could be called the “Selling Your Holidays Bill” the “Holidays for Cash Bill” or the “Holidays (Workers Must Not Be Trusted) Amendment Bill”. We know why that is and people may ask why we would call it that. It is simply that we ask why else would a worker have to get a sickness certificate for 1 day. We could call it the “Holidays (Enabling Bad Employers) Amendment Bill”. These titles are more in keeping with what the bill is all about. It could be the “Holidays (Loss of Productivity) Amendment Bill”. 
Sue Moroney 
: What about the “Holidays (More Workplace Accidents) Bill”? 
LYNNE PILLAY 
: It could be the “Holidays (More Workplace Accidents) Bill”. I ask whether Trevor Mallard will be taking another call. 
Hon Trevor Mallard 
: I’ll work on it. 
LYNNE PILLAY 
: He will suggest some other titles I am sure. 
Hon Trevor Mallard 
: You’ve only two and a half minutes to go. Keep going. 
LYNNE PILLAY 
: OK the title could also be—rolling up a number of titles into one—the “Holidays (Entitlement Repeal Selling Your Holidays Holidays for Cash Workers Cannot Be Trusted) Bill”. I think that pretty much sums up what this Government thinks of the workers of New Zealand. 
I note that this will be the Holidays Amendment Act 2010 or whatever it will be called if those suggestions are accepted by the Government yet quite a bit of the Act comes into force in 2011. I have always found that quite confusing because if the amendment Act is enacted in 2010 we would expect all the parts of that Act to be enacted. But some of the amendment Act— 
Sue Moroney 
: Dribbles in. 
LYNNE PILLAY 
: —dribbles in as other people have said on April Fool’s Day. One wonders for clarity whether it should be called the “Holidays (Entitlement Repeal) Act 2010 and 2011” because by virtue of being called that it would signal that it will not all happen at once. The whole Act will not be enacted in 2010. Some of it will actually be enacted in 2011. 
Members opposite are quite stunned and are thinking that that shows quite a bit of common sense. They are having another look at it. Tau Henare is having a big debate over it. I wonder whether those members can give it that consideration. I know that my colleague Trevor Mallard has a very important contribution to make and he will be able to enlighten the Committee on that pretty soon. 
Going back to the title of the Holidays Amendment Bill I say that even if it was called the “Holidays Amendment Act 2010 and 2011” it still would not say enough about what the legislation is about. If there was more of an explanation in the legislation then members in this Chamber would know and people outside this Chamber would know.