RACHEL BOYACK (Labour—Nelson): It is a pleasure to take a call on this bill tonight, and I want to begin by thanking the Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety for bringing this bill to the House early in this term of our Government. This piece of legislation was an important part of Labour's 2020 election manifesto, and I just want to acknowledge the work of our members in bringing this forward. Many would say that this change is overdue. A lot of people across many parts of our country have worked incredibly hard to bring forward 10 days' sick leave. This, as the Minister has said, is part of our delivery for working people as we recover from COVID, and as previous speakers have said, we learnt the lessons from COVID about just how important it is to have adequate sick leave so that we can ensure our communities stay healthy. I want to thank the select committee and all of the submitters and officials for all of the hard work they've done over the last few months to hear submissions on this bill.