Hon MICHAEL WOOD (Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety): Well-balanced flexibility in the labour market can support economic and social progress. For example, the flexibility provided to employees to manage their health through 10 days of sick leave has provided many benefits. I note that the member and his party voted against that. While New Zealand's economy has made good progress in a number of respects, including 3.2 percent unemployment under this Government, there are also real weaknesses in our labour market that hold us back. A longstanding mismatch between wage growth and productivity is not economic progress. Suppressed wages and inflexible working conditions is not economic progress. Working two or three jobs just to put food on the table at night is not economic progress. On this side of the House, economic progress is a high wage, high productivity economy that delivers for workers and businesses alike. That's what we're committed to delivering, and on that note we very much look forward to the first reading of the Fair Pay Agreements Bill very shortly.