Should there be a reaction and preventative measures taken every time shit happens”

Maybe. Employer’s responsibility is to provide a safe workplace. If driving a cab isnt safe then need to do something about it – cages would be my suggestion as in NYC. But dont need a government regulation for this as it should be able to be sorted out under existing market and rules.

Yeah, I see there’s a GD thread dedicated to religion now. Great to know the main GD thread will not be clogged up with AGW and/ or Socialist doctrine any longer.

Now sure, the work was pretty menial, but I ended up abandoning youth rates, not through any agitation from the kids, but just through sheer embarrassment. They would pick the job up so quickly, and work so hard, that it was simply unjust to pay them less than a adult for the equivalent work.

So I just started them all on the adult minimum award rate. They liked working for me, obviously, but would usually move on because the work just got too boring for them. And I am talking about Pakeha, Maori and Pacific Island kids. They were all brilliant.

My view is that not paying these kids adult rates is just ripping them off and if the business can’t succeed under fair pay conditions, the owners should find a new line of work.

The majority of taxis in NZ are owner operated and the drivers contract to the taxi company. Like all other small businesses you pay to do what you need to and deduct the expense from your gross income. We don’t need more bullshit legislation.
We had nine years of that crap from Clark, it is a failed model which will take many years to sort out.

Oh and re the poll on Kiwiblog about minimum wage, 43% of the vote was for NO minimum wage. $15 was most popular amongst the example rates used, a country mile behind.

Could this be what National began in NZ and Labour and National continued? Ethnic re-engineering?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/7198329/Labours-secret-plan-to-lure-migrants.html

Something not quite right here MNZ. Troy never got name suppression to protect the victims!

Judge Noel Walsh sounds like he learned his judging at the same night classes as Judge Grant Fraser!

He has previous convictions for which he got supervision, community detention, and community work sentences.

Duh! why are we paying for some of our judges?
and on another thread we’re discussing prisoners having the same rights as citizens to vote!

Anyway, Wilkinson is a waste of space seat warmer until National kind find a decent candidate for waimakariri. If she can’t beat Clayton Cosgrove in a rural / urban seat who can she beat?

And, as I see it, no one is asking the government to pay, simply to create some regulations that the owners must comply with.

Should there be a reaction and preventative measures taken every time shit happens?

Sweeping regulation should be approached very carefully too. Why should taxis that do airport runs (and pay higher charges to do that) be made to buy security systems they may not need? Taxi drivers that work nights in higher risk areas should either take more risks or spend money on their own protection.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10625326

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiZ7qXR32QE&feature=player_embedded

maybe he can borrow John Howard’s non core promise used when he was exposed as lying about an Australian GST.

It may have escaped your notice, but unlike banks taxis are not owned by four major corporates. They are often individually owned and are run through a variety of co-operatives who have no coercive powers.

Sometimes there are good employers who provide the necessities for a safe work environment, and sometimes there are bad employers who will provide as little as possible and need the coercive force of the state to do the right thing.