Henare Peeni: Employment Standards Legislation Bill — Second ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeHenare Peeni: Employment Standards Legislation Bill — Second Reading[Sitting date: 03 March 2016. Volume:711;Page:9410. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]PEENI HENARE (Labour—Tāmaki Makaurau): Tēnā koe Mr Assistant Speaker. Can I echo the sentiments and condolences to Martin Crowe’s family at this point in time. It is a sad passing of a true legend.Whenever the ACT Party and in particular that member talks about employment contracts—he clearly sold himself short at his job at TDC Sawmills. My family got there negotiated their own contracts and I can tell you they got paid a heck of a lot more than that member right there did. So any time he is involved in these types of pieces of legislation we are really really concerned. However I do want to commend his working alongside the member Sue Moroney in extending paid parental leave and as the member Marama Fox mentioned making sure that things like matua whāngai—those custodians those caregivers of our babies—are recognised and that they certainly have the time to develop and grow our young people. All the research and statistics say that when you put that effort in at the beginning it pays dividends at the end. I was fortunate enough to sit alongside Sue Moroney in Rotorua where she garnered a heck of a lot of public support for her paid parental leave bill. It is nice to see some of the collaboration across the House and it is evident in this particular bill here.I want to commend the workers and some of the good employers out there because there are a lot of good employers out there. We certainly on this side of the House are not accusing all employers of poor employment practices. We want to highlight many of the ones that do actually pay well. They give workers hard-working Kiwis guaranteed hours. They pay them well. They look after them and their families knowing full well that when that worker is happy that worker is satisfied the job goes well and productivity goes up. We want to congratulate all of those good employers out there and all of those hard-working employees wherever they may be.We have heard about the zero-hour contracts. I want to pick up the point made by Andrew Bayly the member for Hunua who talked about the exclusivity clause. He said that it is important to protect intellectual property rights. Yes for the most part it is. But when we consider zero-hour contracts can I reassure the member for Hunua that the 11 herbs and spices secret is very much safe. Zero-hour contracts are primarily employed in the fast-food industry. Although I acknowledge that you want to protect intellectual property let me just reassure him that when he tucks into the KFC this weekend the secret will be safe.Zero-hour contracts—the stance by the Labour Party is that we will support the bill at this stage. We will support the bill at this stage in the hope that—as the member for the Green Party mentioned when this bill first came into the House it was very different from the bill that is in front of us today—it will change again as it progresses. We want to make sure that zero-hour contracts are eliminated. We want to make sure that people can have financial security and job security. We want to make sure that all of the workers out there are recognised for the hard work that they do.Once again to reiterate the position of the Labour Party we will be supporting the bill at this particular point in time. We can assure all of the hard-working Kiwis out there that we will continue to work hard to make sure that they get a fair go in the employment relations legislation. Tēnā koe.