Tinetti JanHon JAN TINETTI (Labour): Madam Chair thank you for giving me that call. I'm actually speaking to two amendments that I have put forward in my name and they are both ones that I'm passionate about and they both pertain to clause 4.Basically the first one is in clause 4 after section 67A(2)(c) insert (d) 67A(2)(c) does not apply if the employee identifies as Māori or identifies as Pasifika or identifies as a woman or is disabled." The second clause is in clause 4 after section 67A(2)(c) insert "(d) 67A(2)(c) does not apply to any employee who has been employed after being on a benefit." They are two that I am personally very very passionate about and I'm going to actually ask the Minister a question first because I may not get through this so I want to just put my question out there to the Minister beforehand and then put the context around it.My question to the Minister is that for people who are in vulnerable situations as has been identified those that are most vulnerable under employment law how is the power imbalance going to be addressed and what is available for those people in those situations? Now that might sound very simple to the Minister but the reason I ask is that it is because of the 90-day trials that I made the very difficult decision to come into Parliament. I had personal experience of this and I was reminded of that when I was in the House earlier when I heard my colleague Rachel Boyack talking about her family member and I was really appalled. It was a hard story to listen to but I was really appalled when I heard from the other side an interjection that said something along the lines of "Oh it doesn't matter they got over it they got another job."Well I can tell you a story where someone didn't have the opportunity to get another job. And that is a former pupil of mine who on day 86 of their 90-day trial was let go and had no reason given to him why he was let go. Now that might have been illegal but he did not have the wherewithal to know whether that was illegal or not. Now this was a pupil who I had had a lot to do with over the years. I wouldn't say that we always got on when he was a pupil; he was one of the more colourful people but I always had a very big soft spot for him. When he was let go it was very tough for him and he actually went into a deep depression. I had only seen him about three months earlier and things were great. He had his first job he had things going right for him in his life and then suddenly this happened. Now he'd come off a benefit. He had gone into this job. This was the best thing that had happened to him in his life. Then he was let go and given no understanding of why that happened. Two weeks later he took his own life. And talking with his mother—and I still have that recollection in my head every single day that I am in this place because it brought me here—seeing the pain seeing a young life snuffed out because of a 90-day trial. It is not right. This is bad law and it's just being made worse under this bill.So that is the question that I have for the Minister and it is a real question. What is it that those people who are so vulnerable who don't understand the law like we understand in this place; they don't sit down and read the law they don't sit down and read these Acts. They don't know about people that can advocate for them. They just want to work. They just want to be valued because all through their life very few people have valued them. For that young man this was the first time in his life that he felt valued and that law took that away from him. It was because of that that I felt a passion to come into this place—to leave something that I was passionate about. Because we can make law better but what we're doing here this evening is making that law worse for those people and that is such a shame.So again I ask: what is it that those people can access? And how do they know that they can access it? Because it is not easy for them out there and I implore the Minister to go out and sit beside those people in those situations because life is just hard."