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Subway's Attitude Shows Need For Protections
08 May 2007
Subway's Miserable Attitude Shows Need for Unfair Dismissal Protections
"A huge international corporate like Subway should know better than to fire someone at will for such an incredibly minor issue as drink sharing," Council of Trade Unions president Ross Wilson said today.
"Thankfully, New Zealand employment law provides recourse for workers in situations of extreme employer over reaction like this one."
"Unfortunately, this protection for workers would have been gone by lunchtime last year under a National party plan to get rid of unfair dismissal laws, an idea that is still very much on that party's agenda."
"The Mapp bill would have encouraged reckless employers like Subway in Dunedin," he said. "This is exactly the sort of employer behaviour that could have become commonplace had National got their way with their 90 days employment bill."
"The Subway case is a warning - not to take fair employment law for granted."
"Unions have been campaigning hard for better treatment of young workers in fast food in recent years, and it's great to see the Dunedin community get in behind this worker," Ross Wilson concluded.
ENDS
New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
Te Kauae Kaimahi
The New Zealand Council of Trade Unions Te Kauae Kaimahi brings together over 350,000 New Zealand union members in 40 affiliated unions. We are the united voice for working people and their families in New Zealand.
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