SpeechJAN LOGIE (Green): Thank you Madam Speaker. I'm stoked to get to stand up and speak in support of the Crimes (Theft by Employer) Amendment Bill in the name of Ibrahim Omer. And just acknowledging the significance of this piece of legislation and it being brought to somebody who I think I've just heard has experienced this themselves and is now looking at making change for everyone else in that position. It's the best of Parliament if you ask me when that is able to happen. So congratulations.I also want to talk about that point reinforce the message that's already being put out there about equity. Like if employees can be subject to criminal offenses for stealing but an employer we just pretend it's somehow in a different category and not as important. That's a really socially destructive message to send as well as the impact that it has on those workers' lives. And if we're wondering in terms of is this a big issue like I think one of the points of information that I looked to was the Auckland University of Technology (AUT) hospitality survey of workers in 2022 that found 18 percent of hospitality workers they surveyed were not getting the minimum wage. Just hear that again: 18 percent. And 22 percent of the workers they surveyed were not getting their correct holiday pay and another 22—or possibly the same 22 percent—were not getting correct time off or paid for the stat holidays. So this is widespread and our system at the moment is clearly based on those figures not working to stop that theft. Our families and our communities and marginalised workers are paying for that on a daily basis when they are struggling to pay their bills.I also want to look at whether this is—overseas examples. There's been research I found around comparing different states in the US and wage theft interventions that found that laws that most dramatically increased punitive damages saw the greatest declines in the incidence of minimum wage violations while other types of wage theft laws did not appear to have any effect. So we have evidence and I hope the select committee will be testing that evidence through the process about actually are the fines strong enough in this bill do we need to strengthen them to get that effect.I also want to commend the member for using the member's bill opportunity to be able to address what he can but there is a wider issue in terms of the structure of our labour market and enforcement of basic employment rights that I do think needs to be acknowledged. We have a really precarious situation for many workers in temporary casual situations contracting—whether they're actually contracting or not—who are unable to access their rights through our court processes. One of the recommendations out of the AUT research was that we should be increasing our labour inspectorate to be able to ensure that the laws we have in place are enforced so that the burden does not always sit with the person who's affected and being harmed by the behaviour of others in this case employers.And just to point out that New Zealand I think the last report had one labour inspector per 57000 workers. The International Labour Organization's recommended level is one labour inspector per 10000. We are far out of step. So when we hear messages from this certain side of the House about cutting our Public Service actually we need to be increasing it when it comes to enforcement. But we are very pleased to be supporting this bill because it is an equity issue and it is a really significant problem in our community that is long overdue to be addressed. Congratulations.