Fair payment to be scrapped if National get in

[SueDonim]

The problem with fair pay agreements is that employers can just say that they abiding by Govt. rules/regs, and people who work harder won't be rewarded. The ones who don't want to work harder will be the ones who are rewarded. It removes the incentives for people to work to get ahead.

It seems to me to be that the people who want to do the bare minimum will be the ones who support this.

It would be hard to get around it unless the employees are brow-beaten into silence about their salaries AND they don't know what they should be getting which is what I hope we would move away from. Salaries have largely been "secret" since compulsory unionism was disbanded. Some degree of equal pay for equal work needs to be in place and we need to be much more open about salaries so that people know whether what they are receiving is fair.

Having worked under both collective and individual employment agreements I can see benefits and drawbacks on both sides. Workers need relativity with others doing the same work, but those who work harder do need to be respected, appreciated, encouraged and rewarded. A concept that seems to me to be losing ground today with so many people unwilling to give a fair day's work for a fair day's pay.