National will take more than sick pay!

"A National Government would take more than sick pay from working people," CTU president Ross Wilson said.Today, National Party finance spokesperson John Key announced that sick pay for workers would be reviewed if a National government is elected on Saturday.

"National has kept their workplace relations agenda beneath the radar throughout the election campaign," Ross Wilson said.

"But National has committed itself to returning the Employment Contracts Act, making it much easier to sack workers, abolish extra pay for work on public holidays, and put a fourth weeks annual leave up for sale."

"John Key says we need higher wages like Australia but wants to return to the very law that kept wages down throughout the 1990s," said Ross Wilson.

"And now they say they suggesting they might scrap sick leave?"

"The CTU warns workers not to give them the chance to do it!" he concluded.