It was during the select committee hearings process that we heard about some of those unintended consequences. The primary one, of course, was that this measure of itself, according to the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment regulatory impact statement, will cost New Zealand employers something close to a billion dollars a year, near enough to 1 percent of the country's total payroll, without a single ounce of extra productivity being generated as a result of it, no extra productivity.