Read stuff about van Velden's work history and you'll quickly gain the impression that she has never actually had to do a real job for any serious length of time outside of being an MP.

Born in '92 - so she's 32 I think and graduated from UoA in 2016, so 8 years between then & now. First elected to Parliament in 2020, so reduce that to 4 years. Oh, and before uni she was at one of the countries most expensive college's in Auckland.

In that time she worked for Hooton's lobbying firm, and then became a staffer for Seymour where according to wiki her "sole task" was lobbying for the End of Life bill, which seems to have meant hanging around Parliament and talking to MPs about it.

Act's bio for her does note that she has "been a factory worker and corporate affairs consultant"; which kinda reads summer student job and then the lobbying to me.

Anywho, all of that is to say that a person who has likely never experienced difficulty with employment, and never had the experience of work that the majority of NZers have had is striving to undermine and remove what few rights workers have managed to carve back over the last wee while.