Logie JanJAN LOGIE (Green): Thank you Madam Speaker. It's not often I feel like singing and dancing in celebration in this House. Right now I'm going to save you all from that trauma but I've got the feeling inside because this is truly a day to celebrate. This is a turning point for our country where we start to bring back some balance and that is about raising those who have been doing the work the work of keeping us safe through a pandemic—of cleaning our spaces of providing us with food of getting us around of doing that caring work for our kids and our elderly and our people of producing and packing and getting that food to the supermarkets and those stores. So many jobs; so many of our people who have been looking after us—those of us whether it be transitory or not who are in a position of privilege in this country. This is about raising them to the place they deserve to enable them to get some benefit from their work benefit that helps them stand tall and proud that recognises that their knowledge may have some value to their workplace and to their industry; to enable them to afford rent and put food on the table and pay an electricity bill—unattainable things at the moment for so many people in this country.I do just need to say that in terms of the context of the inequality that is not being mentioned by the National Party or the ACT Party in this debate New Zealand had the world's largest increase in income inequality the largest increase in the world in the 1980s and 1990s because of decisions made in this place. It wasn't a change of the work habits of our people or their ability to bargain; no it was the decisions made in this place to take away the power and the ability to collectively organise from working people as well as the slashing of benefits—we've still got some work to do on that. But this is about restoring that. It was such a profound increase in inequality where the top 1 percent's incomes doubled over those 20 years while they only increased for those at the bottom by about 30 percent from low rates and the value of the top 10 percent became nine times what the lowest-earning 10 percent was as opposed to the five times more it had been before. That was a profound social change that has impacted every single person in this community and it brought me to tears when the Hon Meka Whaitiri was describing the impact of that on her community. That was a familiar story to me from having grown up through that time in Invercargill. It has impacted communities in every part of this country communities of geographic location as well as communities of identity and that some of our young people have never known decent pay or stable work conditions is a shame.But that's what National and ACT are defending that flexibility that they want to hang on to which has resulted in Pasifika women earning 25 percent of the wage of a Pākehā man—entrenched embedded inequality that is unjustifiable and is only a result of discrimination and a thing they call unconscious bias that is a result of our laws. This is a point of turning that around.This is not just about pay. We talk about pay but it's also about—the mandatory to decide" aspects will be wages hours training and development and leave. National says "How do those things impact productivity?" Work a 16-hour day with no training day after day after day—you're going to be a peak performer aren't you? It may be a low cost of business but you're not going to be as productive as you would with training and clear hours.That is an aspect of this that we haven't discussed much that I do want to just touch on which is that the fair pay agreements (FPAs) are bringing working people's representatives together with business to actually tackle problems across industries. We're seeing this with bus drivers; the potential in hospitality I think is huge as another example where we know the potential of bringing those voices together will help our businesses. There's been research done that has shown that poor leadership in our businesses is costing the economy $5 billion a year. We do not have good managers in this country as a rule and that is backed up by research. But flexibility! The core problem with the leadership is a focus on driving down costs and not recognising the value of people in investing in them and listening to their experiences and being able to learn from them to improve the business. Fair pay agreements create an ability to actually address issues right across a whole industry that will make work life significantly better for workers but also a chance to actually reduce wastage and improve productivity.We do need to recognise too that status quo where in hospitality the research that was given to us in the committee was that half of workers surveyed in hospo had experienced harassment 80 percent of them had not been given any training over 20 percent of them weren't getting their legal entitlements of holiday pay or rest breaks and not even 30 percent had even been made aware of their health and safety risks. This is the status quo that National and ACT are fighting so desperately for.Mark Cameron: I hope you can validate that.JAN LOGIE: Yeah it's an Auckland University of Technology verified survey—quite well respected; quite verified I would say.These are the things that this bill has the potential to change and I really just want to touch—we've heard from National saying that you know the problem of this is that once you start an FPA it can never be stopped you can never take it out. I mean you know there are issues in terms of review periods and they've got time frames on them and all of that but we'll ignore that and we'll say they can never be taken out. But you know as if we need to be scared of better conditions—frightening. Frightening that we might get better conditions. Frightening that we might sit down with the employers and have a discussion—frightening. I'm not really sure what world they live in that that is so threatening and that they see the unions as frightening when the unions are the collective of working people. But that tells us what they think of working people—that they're scared of them. Hon Member: Rubbish.JAN LOGIE: That is what I hear in that argument when they're saying "Unions!" as if they're so bad. Actually they're scared of working people and I don't think they should be. Like part of me wants to say "And they should be because union power we're going to take them down that 1 percent." I do hope that does happen but actually that is not what this is setting up. This is just setting up a process of bringing people together to find that base rate that enables people to live decent lives. It's not an awful thing. It is a thing that will help transform our country and we are proud to support it."