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New Zealand Government
November 30, 2000
Injury And Rehabilitation Bill Helps Youth, Women, Seasonal
Workers
Press Release by Laila Harré
"The new Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation Bill
will deliver on Alliance policy and will be a major achievement for the
Labour Alliance Coalition Government," said Youth and Women's Affairs
Minister Laila Harré today.
"The new Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation Bill gives a better deal
for women, young people and seasonal workers," Youth Affairs Minister
Laila Harré said today.
"In the past people on unpaid parental leave and seasonal workers missed
out on weekly compensation when they were injured. It was unfair and
discriminated against people who most needed protection – people who did not
have regular weekly wages.
"The Alliance
has worked hard to make sure those anomalies are remedied with this Bill.
"The new Bill provides a more flexible assessment of loss of earnings
when people are injured and extends earner status and entitlement to weekly
compensation to seasonal workers and people on unpaid parental leave".
Ms Harré says the point of the changes is to provide a fairer and more
certain way of determining compensation, which better reflect people's
'normal' earnings pattern.
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