2020 Election: National Leader Judith Collins Says 90-Day Trials Give Some Businesses Confidence to Hire People of Another Ethnicity

National leader Judith Collins says the 90-day trials give companies the confidence to risk hiring one person, even in some cases when a potential employee is of a different ethnicity.

Another way to boost the economy was to tap into oil and gas reserves, Collins said today at the first Newstalk ZB leaders breakfast, which could turn New Zealand into the “North Sea in the south.”

Collins said he endorsed the 90-day tests.

“They give companies confidence for people to try, when … maybe there is something with that person, maybe there is something in their past, maybe they are not qualified enough, maybe they do not have that much experience, maybe time no “I don’t know them that well.

“Maybe they’re of a different ethnicity, you know, it’s about giving people a chance.”

The Labor-led government restricted the lawsuits, which were brought by National, and allowed new hires to be fired within the first 90 days of employment. Now only companies with 19 or fewer employees can use the trial period.

Mike Hosking’s first question in the two-hour interview was whether Collins was politicizing his Christianity, after being photographed praying at St Thomas Church in Auckland yesterday, before casting an early vote.

Collins said she was not and that she had been a Christian all her life.

“By chance we were voting in a church … the minister said, ‘Would you like to come and pray?’ … I did not invite the media.

“It just happened that he was in a church … He wasn’t going to turn it down.

Much of the interview focused on the economy and the enormous challenge that Covid-19 poses. How would National drag the country?

Oil and gas reserves should also be tapped, which, according to Collins, would not make a difference to climate change.

“Gas is something that is part of the world. We have the potential to be basically the North Sea in the south, with the seismic tests that I have seen, when I was minister of Energy and Resources, off the east coast of the south. Island – There is enough there, according to geologists, for what basically looks like a North Sea.

“And this is how places like Norway got so rich … but we are afraid of being stoked by the Prime Minister; 0.17 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions – come on, we are not the problem, we are the solution”.

So far, house prices have continued to rise, but the national leader said that could not last, as there is hardly any migration and people are worried about losing jobs.

“Obviously there is going to be some kind of recession. There will have to be … interest rates also have a way of going up.”

Collins reiterated National’s support for charter schools. The NCEA worked for “some kids,” but alternatives like Cambridge were still needed.

“There are too many photography classes, too many media studios, too many things to wake up to. Which is great, except there are no jobs in those areas,” Collins said of the NCEA, saying more focus was needed on “Stem” issues. ; science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

When asked if the Governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Adrian Orr, was doing a good job, Collins said: “I guess so.”

“I trust him for telling us the truth about what he’s doing … he’s very frank about the fact that he will have to make up some things as he goes along.”

Hosking asked about our apparent path to negative interest rates. Collins said there were downsides, including a form of hyperinflation, but Orr was blunt.

However, she needed to be careful with her embrace of “awakening”.

Hosking posed a series of quick questions to the national leader, including politicians from other parties he rated.

“I know people will feel strange about this, but I quite like the youth and the naivete; I should try not to say a word that is bad, but the naive belief and self-confidence that Chlöe Swarbrick has,” Collins said of Green Party MP .

“I can’t help but admire that. And see in her, myself at that age – where I thought she knew all the answers, and really didn’t know anything. But I like her bravery and self-confidence.”

Collins, who also announced a new policy to investigate Auckland City Council and its ramifications, including Auckland Transport and WaterCare, delivered a final message to voters: Businesses were failing and “the government at this point has no idea what to do, their only plan is to keep the borders closed and talk to Covid. “

“The economy is key,” said Collins, who was optimistic about the chances of a National-Act Party coalition after Oct. 17, despite the latest 1 News Colmar Brunton poll placing National (33 percent ) far behind the Labor Party (48 percent).

“National and Act together can really do it. We can do it,” Collins said. “It’s almost impossible according to the experts, but they also wrongly called Brexit. They also wrongly called Scott Morrison. They wrongly called Boris Johnson.”