After I spoke to my member of parliament during the week and she told me it would take some 4 to 5 years to change part of a law that was crippling our wonderful country, it was then that I made up my mind to draw a line in the sand. I decided to defy the law and not pay anyone who is demanding a large some of money from me and my family for an unjust judgment made by a biased New Zealand Employment Court Judge.

My wife and I have done nothing wrong except to dismiss an employee who we allege over a long period of time demonstrated to us intentional dishonesty followed up by physical violence and verbal abusive behaviour. I know of no other country in the world that has a law that expects any employer to put up with such bad behaviour. No other law that gives other people the power to force us to reward people for such bad behaviour. I would like to think that after reading the many articles on Ronnies Blog most honest New Zealanders will agree that the personal greivance laws in this country are both one sided and morally wrong

For the future of everyone in this wonderful country of ours someone has to draw a line in the sand and say enough is enough. Surely rewarding people for unacceptable behaviour in the work place is not the kind of society we want to cultivate.

In making this stand I know that have a lot to lose but my loss is only a small token compared to the large number of lives and businesses that are being destroyed daily by a senseless, non productive law that rewards people for being dishonest and then having their feelings hurt.

My last chance to make a difference
I am one of many New Zealanders who have been diagnosed with that dreaded incurable disease we call cancer. If my life is to be shortened then I pray that by drawing a line in the sand today in 2012 it will influence a change in the law that will benefit many generations to come.

I first met New Zealand’s former Prime Minister Sir Robert Muldoon when I was treasurer of the South Canterbury branch of the National Party. I took an instant liking to the man because he was a straight shooter, said what he thought and was not afraid to call a spade a spade.

Telling it like it is
I remember going to hear him speak in the local town hall once and there was a bloke in the audience that was giving Rob a hard time. The Prime Minister pointed his finger at him and said, “Listen young fellow if you cut your hair you may be able to see what is going on around you”
He was the only Prime Minister that was not afraid of anybody and he even ordered a political reporter out of one of his press conferences once

I think his best speech was when he said to his audience, “I can remember when there were just 7 unemployed workers in New Zealand and I knew the names and addresses of everyone of them”

He was a master at relating to the working man and they loved him for it. His supporters became what he called Rob’s Mob.

I wonder what Rob Muldoon would say today if he came back and found that the unemployed in New Zealand had climbed from just 7 workers to currently 7% of the total workforce.

How did it happen?
It was quite easy really the government of the day figured out that there were more workers than employers so to give the government more votes they introduced a law called personal grievance. This law meant it became illegal for employers to sack a worker and if they did the worker could sue them for compensation as well as their lawyers bill

One of the things that they introduced to the law was compensation for hurt feelings and humiliation and this became very popular amongst women because all they had to do was cry and lawyers and judges would feel sorry for them

The police were ordered not get involved in employment disputes even if there was criminal offending. After a while the government realised that they were breeding a group of workers who were making a handsome living by getting the sack and then suing their former bosses.

90 Days sack free
Not wanting to get off side with their voters and the unions they introduced a 90 day clause. This meant that it became illegal for a worker to sue their boss until they had been employed for 90 days. This was a sticking plaster approach to the problem because they did not take into account all those employers that were well established and had employed all their staff on a handshake before the legeslation was introduced.

Ronnie B was one of those employers who got lumbered with a women worker who unbeknown to him had been sacked for alleged assault and after getting the sack she sued her former boss for thousands. The rest of the story is well documented on this blog.

The remedy get rid of the personal grievance claims introduce some work place authority and bring back Rob’s Mob

I sent an email to 18 politicians and political reporters on a very important issue for New Zealand and I only got a response from Winston Peters the Leader of NZ First and David Shearer the Leader of the Labour Party. The rest have so far remained silent

The email was addressed to members of Parliament and contained an attachment giving 30 valid reasons why the government should abolish personal grievance claims from the New Zealand Employment Law

I have just had an interview with my member of parliament  Hon Jo Goodhew about the state of the present personal grievance law which in my experience is corrupt to say the least. My Member of Parliament  gave me some suggestions on how I could fund my contribution towards a corrupt law that is crippling the country. I came away from the interview more determined than ever not to contribute any money towards her corrupt scheme. If she wants to be a part of a system that sees a family home in her community get sold from under the feet of 2 elderly pensioners than that will be on her conscience and the rest of her National political party.

If you are a New Zealand taxpayer then you are about to make a contribution towards the  lawyers bill of our sacked employee. Once the bailiffs take all the furniture out of our home and the lawyers sell our family home where we bought up our 4 children the proceeds will then be paid to our sacked employees solicitors. Unfortunately our sacked employee will get nothing because her lawyers bill exceeds any compensation given to her by the New Zealand Government. We will however be claiming any payments made from our estate to her law firm as a tax expense and as these payments will be a loss on our books we will get all our money back from you the tax payer

The real bad news for you is you don’t have to wait for our house to be sold because you are already contributing towards the millions of dollars that are being paid out every day to law firms and sacked employees in personal grievance claims.

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