This blog is about the "sleepover case", where a disability support worker with the backing of his Union took a case (initially to the Employment Relations Authority) arguing he was entitled to the minimum wage for sleepover shifts.
Every time this case hits the media most people can't see past the fact that these workers are being paid to sleep, hence the name for this blog. The blog will probably end up as a fruitless attempt to educate, but it is trivial to simplify the issues involved to such an emotive statement, nor is it a simple matter of left-wing v right-wing politics.
There is a bigger picture, and bear it in mind as you read. How does New Zealand society wish their disabled citizens who are unable to care for themselves, to be cared for and treated?
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