“Sorry bro, I’m going to have to let you go aye. We’ve had a complaint from a customer about you and we’re not happy about your performance. It sucks bro but I’m going to have to give you your two […]
Tony’s Bants: Navigating wellbeing in isolation…
Tony Stevens is the YWRC Business Manager, our employment advocacy expert, and wellbeing advocate. To read more from Tony on his journey for peace, health, and happiness click right here: www.myhappinessrevolution.net/ I decided to revisit the wellbeing habits I’d started […]
Tony’s Bants: COVID – An opportunity to give workers more rights…
by Tony Stevens I hope that the government makes some significant changes to employment legislation in the wake of the COVID-19 lockdown. The egregious power imbalance of the employment relations framework in New Zealand has been exposed on a widescale […]
Tony’s Bants: The importance of employment education…
Tony Stevens is a YWRC employment advocate, and educator; with a fierce interest in democracy done right. Employment justice for young people – that’s what the Young Workers Resource Centre stands for. Young workers in NZ are being treated like […]
Tony’s Bants: How dare you say “young people” aren’t educated enough to vote…
Tony Stevens is a YWRC employment advocate, and educator; with a fierce interest in democracy done right. ————————————————————————————————- If the school strikes for climate action last week are anything to go by, lowering the voting age to 16 will see […]
Tony’s Bants: Should prisoners have the right to vote?
Photo by: People Against Prisons Aotearoa What is the purpose of prison? Is it to solely to punish people who break our laws and harm other people, by taking away their freedom? Or is it to separate those people from […]
Tony’s Bants: NZ’s Teacher “Super Strike”
Photo by: Jared Stevenson (Newshub) As the biggest strike in New Zealand history looms, a tectonic microscope is being cast over our education system. Primary and secondary teachers have voted to strike on Wednesday in an unprecedented industrial action that’s […]
Tony’s Bants: Nine things to do when starting a new job
Ask for the pay rate Technically this belongs to the job interview stage but its important to emphasize how important this is. So many people are too intimidated or shy to ask how much they are going to be paid […]
Tony’s Bants: The machines are coming…
Robots taking over human society has long been fodder for dystopian sci-fi movies like Terminator, The Matrix, I Robot, and Westworld. These stories are so compelling in part because of the real possibility that it could happen. What if I […]
Tony’s Bants: Hiring young people
Hiring young people is an investment. There is a science behind managing young workers and many employers don’t put in the effort. But those that do have a powerful opportunity to develop the future of their business. Recently Massey University […]