National and Labour have joined forces to fast-track modern slavery legislation into Parliament using a new bipartisan process that bypasses the traditional members’ bill ballot, after ACT refused to support the proposal.
Co-sponsored by National MP Greg Fleming and Labour MP Camilla Belich, the bill would require large companies earning over $100 million annually to report on modern slavery risks in their supply chains, establish a public register, strengthen parliamentary oversight, and introduce civil penalties of up to $600,000, along with fines of up to $200,000 for non-compliance or misleading reporting.
The legislation would also allow for public naming, potential liability for directors and senior managers, give the Human Rights Commission a formal role, and enable future reviews including the possible creation of an ‘anti-slavery commissioner’.
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ACT wouldn’t support it? did he have to check with Davos first but they were busy?
Ahh, the uniparty. Front and centre, just like the good ol’ C19 days. Expect more of this, me thinks.
The globalist sell outs wearing red undies join hands with the globalist sell outs wearing blue undies. Vote Labour or National nothing will change!
100% on the money. This is just window dressing now we have dodgy trade deals that allow cheap labour to flood New Zealand from off shore. Can’t have it being too obvious this is being used to drive down wages and do skilled New Zealander’s out of jobs. A friend of ours in Sydney said he has seen local IT workers replaced at light speed with cheaper imports.
In that case they better prosecute themselves as Indians are rife for slavery in their culture as witnessed by prosecution of dairy owners here etc. Now we have an fta with guess who lol
I’m with Seymour on this – it just raises costs for consumers and is virtue signaling gone mad.
If it worked then slavery would have nearly ended by now as NZ is one of the last western countries to add this operational and reporting stranglehold on bigger businesses.
This doesn’t work & It ignores all business under 100m- proving that this is just more virtue signaling than actually making a difference.
Plus if manufacturers could function here because energy was affordable and koha didn’t need to be paid to iwi and greenies hadn’t imposed so much red tape then we’d have jobs and there might be a little less slavery in the world.
Seymour supports the Global Zionists!
They LOVE cheap slave labour.
Are you trying to say we are free, living in a democracy. The government are trying to prevent modern slavery. So good the government are taking care of the citizens and advocating for freedom, WTH!