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The Federation hopes you and yours are all safe and have survived nature’s fury this week.
Remember how the Government passed retrospective legislation because they didn’t want to pay a couple of million dollars back to plumbers, gasfitters and drainlayers? They claimed it was a mistake in wording – well look at this one as it seems more about the number of votes they can rescue after another MISTAKE! WINZ to start reimbursing clients. It was announced on the radio that most people concerned will get around $500.00 but one person will get around $20,000. All we got was a kick in the teeth.
It seems the Government is operating on a big “Blank Page”. This may be by choice as how do we as an industry fight against a “BLANK PAGE”. The industry gets told nothing until it's too late and the decisions made generally cost us as an industry and achieves absolutely nothing.
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Here is a news flash for the PGDB.............
ANY system run corruptly will fail, any system mal-administrated will fail but to replace it with even less effective system is surreal and I believe an admission at how badly the original system was run.
We have lost all the protection that we could use to prove the system was run badly.......so they took it all way, we are led by morons, dodgy morons.
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Other than the old inspector system, the carbon copy written in handwriting was the best, it declined from there to the electronic register debacle and its accuracy disclaimer accessed by a password....to the print off all you like and not register any NEW work.....
If this was a graph of effectiveness against safety it would sharply decline, like a ski jumper slope.....
What should have happened was when they found that the system was run badly, they should have fixed it, not blame innocent people and cover their arses......why are the chair and vice chair still on the Board, they are up to their necks in my case.
My case showed that the system was very badly administered, it reflects on us as an industry, but it there ant come back for the wrong doer's....... no none at all.
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So, from this latest newsletter......
WINZ to start reimbursing clients NZ Newswire on November 22, 2016, 4:01 am Work and Income is about to start reimbursing 49,000 current and former clients who were underpaid on their accommodation supplements because of a coding error. Social Development Minister Anne Tolley says reimbursements will start this week for 22,000 current clients, who will receive a total $14 million. It's estimated that 27,000 former clients were underpaid a total of $15m and from next week they will be able to go online to assess their eligibility. The incorrect payments date back to 1993.
How about this one too.......
Parole and release dates have been wrongly calculated by the Department of Corrections, the Supreme Court has ruled - and prisoners could be freed as early as tomorrow.
In a judgment that could have wide-ranging consequences the court has unanimously held that Corrections has misinterpreted the Parole Act in some instances.
Corrections says it has already identified prisoners who are affected by the ruling - with some likely to be released as early as tomorrow.
Douglas Ewen, lawyer for Michael Marino who appealed to the Supreme Court and has found to have served too long in jail, told the Herald they will seek compensation.
So.....and I understand that some are in a position where they can't get a job, but I bet not all.....and the people in prison (and again I bet some are innocent, but not all).......who are convicted of offences, are guilty of crime, can get "justice".....
It appears on the face of it that if you're work shy or a criminal, you are more likely to get a fair go........really?
But if you're a hard working, play by the rules type of people, you are going to get royally f****ed over......we should go to the Ombudsman, you know the guy who's motto is "fairness for all".....but he doesn't give a f**** either.....
If you are a hard working, tax paying contributing part of society you are ignored and in my case set up for something I did not do.....
But if you're a dole bludger and/or criminal......you can get back pay and a lesser sentence and even compensation......can anyone else see the wrongness in this are you all happy to be treated like this?
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When the cert system was shown to have........
- missing information (including the recording for a test for leaks at a near fatal explosion),
the adding of information after the certs were signed as evidenced by the carbon copies not reflecting the top handwritten copy, added
in different colour inks (I kid you not, the dodgy investigator brought pink paper with black ink, to mask it to my interviews),
when the electronic register was so badly run it carried a disclaimer, the copies were lost then found and then lost again by the PGDB (I have letters to prove it)
Etc etc, these are my top three of mal-administration by the PGDB.....
NONE OF THIS WAS THE SYSTEMS FAULT....IT WAS THE PGDB'S FAULT......
You guys have lost the very safety mechanisms that you could hold the PGDB to account and protect you're selves......but it is ok with you?