New Zealand Court of Appeal confirms protection of agency workers’ rights

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Last year the Employment Court ruled that agency workers who were members of the union were entitled to the employment conditions set out in the collective bargaining agreement negotiated between E tfont-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:
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“Labour hire (agency) is being regularly used by many New Zealand companies to move the risk of employment on to a group of very vulnerable workers. It is time that the companies using labour hire in this way changed their business model. Our union will be knocking on the door of other companies who were also exploiting the mostly migrant labour hire workforce.”