by Young Workers Resource Centre | Jul 28, 2020 | Blog Posts, Tony's Bants
“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 weeks-notice.” This is how a 21-year-old bartender lost his job...
by Young Workers Resource Centre | Apr 16, 2020 | Blog Posts, Tony's Bants
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...
by Young Workers Resource Centre | Apr 2, 2020 | Blog Posts, Tony's Bants
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 as a result of...
by Young Workers Resource Centre | Dec 4, 2019 | Blog Posts, Tony's Bants, Uncategorized
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 cannon fodder. They...
by Young Workers Resource Centre | Sep 30, 2019 | Blog Posts, Tony's Bants
Tony Stevens is a YWRC employment advocate, and educator; with a fierce interest in democracy done right....
by Young Workers Resource Centre | Aug 25, 2019 | Tony's Bants
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 general society and work with them to reintegrate...