Ani O'Brien: Rot - Taxpayers are paying for special unlimited paid leave for Māori staff

Oranga Tamariki and Ministry for the Environment have race based leave entitlements

Duncan Garner kicked a hornet’s nest this week by reporting that Māori staff at Oranga Tamariki can take “discretionary” paid leave that other staff can’t, and that it’s effectively unlimited in practice.

Pee Kay: The entitlement applies to Māori staff only!

If this article by Matua Kahurangi is factual and discretionary paid cultural leave has been embedded in Oranga Tamariki’s collective contract, that should be of huge concern to all New Zealanders! Well, maybe not to some of their Maori staff.

This racially prescribed entitlement is not a thin end of the wedge, oh no, this is a huge battle-axe driven into society!