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Um.

A number of readers, many of them beloved friends of the site, have received the above message.

We are very sorry. We haven’t the foggiest who is behind it. Cyber messers of some nature.

UPDATE: Only three commenters are ‘banned’ from Broadsheet: Memes, Zuppy and Charger (all of whom sneak back in regularly, the rascals).

Apologies all.

Any excuse

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New Zealand Labour MP Iain Lees-Galloway

RTE reports:

New Zealand has passed legislation banning zero-hour contracts, in what is thought to be one of the first laws in the developed world to end the use of deals criticised as exploitative.

Opposition Labor MP Iain Lees-Galloway was joined by his political opponents in supporting the Employment Standards Legislation Bill to end the use of the deals under which employees are required to be available for work but have no guaranteed minimum hours.

To the best of my knowledge it’s the first of its type [in the developed world], certainly in terms of the US and UK,” Mr Lees-Galloway said.

“It’s possible Denmark doesn’t have them because these type of contracts are all about exploiting loopholes and I don’t think Denmark had the loopholes in the first place.”

There you go now.

New Zealand bans zero-hour contracts (RTE)

Previously: Zero Hour Contracts And You

The ‘If And When’ Employees

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The Library of Congress has released a short-ish list of the books that “shaped America”.

La Frondeuse writes:

“…so many of them banned in Ireland e.g For Whom The Bell Tolls & the Grapes of Wrath, the Catcher in the Rye, Catch 22, the Lord of the Flies and the Color Purple, presumably also a few others. There’s a great expo of books banned in Ireland (including the above, and ffs, Gulliver’s Travels!) here.