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Andrew Dickens: We deserve our summer break · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: And you know, the story that's been getting my goat
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  Speaker 1: all this week has been the accusation that New Zealanders
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  Speaker 1: take too long a holiday over the Christmas January period.
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  Speaker 1: And this story just keeps on burbling along. It started
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  Speaker 1: on the weekend. We've got business owners and economists and
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  Speaker 1: Simon Bridges and taught back callers all alleging that the
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  Speaker 1: country closes down for the month and it kills our productivity.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, there's absolutely no proof of that, and
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  Speaker 1: all these allegations seem a little better than reckons. And
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  Speaker 1: let's remember the rest of the Christian world are also
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  Speaker 1: off for Christmas New Year, so we're not losing competitiveness
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  Speaker 1: over that week, I'll we now. And of course, remember
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  Speaker 1: the Northern Hemisphere closes down for August while we're here
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  Speaker 1: working our butts off. Maybe some of the people moaning
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  Speaker 1: about the summer break have lost track of the reality
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  Speaker 1: for most New Zealand workers. For most of us, the
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  Speaker 1: military minimum statuary leave for most New Zealanders is just
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  Speaker 1: four weeks after a year of employment, twenty precious days
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  Speaker 1: that we then have to eke out over twelve months.
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  Speaker 1: There are four big school holiday periods. Parents need to
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  Speaker 1: think about that, need to take a break. For most
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  Speaker 1: New Zealanders, a big summer holiday might last until the
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  Speaker 1: second week of January, and that's it. And the longer
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  Speaker 1: you take over some of the longer you have to
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  Speaker 1: work over the rest of the year. Only a very
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  Speaker 1: few people casually skive off for January, the people who
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  Speaker 1: have successful businesses, who have managers in place, the semi retired,
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  Speaker 1: and all those superstars whose success during the year grants
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  Speaker 1: them privilege and I'm looking at you, Mike Hosking and
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  Speaker 1: the other group of the lawyers. Partly because the courts
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  Speaker 1: closed down now. While judges have nice summer holidays, that
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  Speaker 1: only allowed a weekened spring during the rest of the year,
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  Speaker 1: so the lawyers can't work, so they bugger off to
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  Speaker 1: their beautiful batches. And that's why lawyers were the most
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  Speaker 1: concerned at the dropping of the new resource management system
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  Speaker 1: this week, because there's a six week submission period and
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  Speaker 1: that means the lawyers are going to have to work
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  Speaker 1: all summer like the rest of us, and that's why
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  Speaker 1: they're grumpy. For more from Early edition with Ryan Bridge.
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