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Uncertainty Still Clouds Future Of Suicide Prevention Office
Friday, 3 May 2024, 10:58 am | PSA
"If mental health is such a priority, why has the Government failed to provide concrete evidence the Office will keep operating as before?" said Duane Leo National Secretary for the Public Service Association Te Pūkenga Here Tikanga Mahi. More >>
PSA Challenges The Government To Settle Pay Equity For Care And Support Workers
Thursday, 2 May 2024, 5:06 pm | PSA
PSA National Secretary Kerry Davies says, "If this Government is serious about pay equity, it could start by settling the long-standing pay equity claim for our 65,000 lowest paid frontline care and support workers. We want to settle this claim with ... More >>
Government Risks Wellbeing Of Māori With Proposed Cuts To Te Puni Kōkiri
Wednesday, 1 May 2024, 10:30 am | PSA
The Government’s spending cuts are again targeting support for Māori with proposed reform of the agency charged with advising on Māori wellbeing and development. More >>
Govt Waters Down Royal Commission On Christchurch, Cuts Ethnic Communities
Tuesday, 30 April 2024, 5:09 pm | PSA
Government spending cuts are forcing the Ministry of Ethnic Communities to water down how it engages with various communities, undermining the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the terrorist attack on Christchurch masjidain. More >>
Ministry Of Social Development Sheds 200 Workers, More Cuts To Come
Tuesday, 23 April 2024, 3:29 pm | PSA
The Ministry of Social Development (MSD) has told staff today there will be further job cuts after accepting voluntary redundancy applications from 200 workers. Earlier this month MSD called for voluntary redundancies across parts of its Service Delivery ... More >>
Government Spending Cuts Force DIA To Contract Out Critical Legal Work
Friday, 12 April 2024, 4:00 pm | PSA
Commercial work undertaken by a Department of Internal Affairs’ legal team will be fully outsourced to private law firms under proposed job cuts to meet the Government’s drive for spending cuts. "How does fattening the profits of law firms make sense ... More >>
Govt Forces DOC To Shed 130 Jobs Despite Fragile State Of Natural Environment
Wednesday, 10 April 2024, 3:16 pm | PSA
The reckless nature of the Government’s cost cutting drive has again been exposed with DOC forced to make big cuts at a time when it is struggling to protect the conservation estate - the jewel in our tourism crown. DOC told staff today the Government had ... More >>
Now Tax Cuts Put Ahead Of Climate - Jobs To Go At Environment Ministry
Monday, 8 April 2024, 2:16 pm | PSA
Job losses at the Ministry for the Environment to meet the Government’s cost cutting drive risks New Zealand’s ability to manage our many environmental challenges. Today the Ministry for the Environment called for voluntary redundancies across the ... More >>
Voluntary Redundancies At MSD Will Make It Harder For Clients And Communities
Thursday, 4 April 2024, 11:29 am | PSA
The opening of wide scale voluntary redundancies at MSD to meet the Government’s cost cutting drive means thousands of New Zealanders are likely to have the service they receive from MSD compromised. Today the Ministry of Social Development (MSD) ... More >>
Brutal 40% Cuts Will Have Huge Impact On Pasifika People
Thursday, 28 March 2024, 9:17 am | PSA
Brutal government spending cuts that will see the size of the Ministry for Pacific Peoples slashed by 40% will hit Pasifika communities hard, the PSA says. The Ministry has told staff that it is seeking voluntary redundancies, and to redeploy and reassign ... More >>
Vital Work Of Ministry For Ethnic Communities Under Threat From Government Cuts
Monday, 25 March 2024, 12:50 pm | PSA
The PSA is alarmed by a proposal to restructure the Ministry for Ethnic Communities coming less than three years after being set up in response to the Christchurch mosque attack. "The important work of the Ministry in safeguarding and strengthening ... More >>
Government’s Reckless MPI Cuts Pose Huge Risk To Primary Sector Exports
Thursday, 21 March 2024, 4:07 pm | PSA
The Government is putting our $57.4 billion primary products export earnings at risk because of proposed cuts of 384 roles at the Ministry of Primary industries (MPI), says PSA National Secretary Duane Leo. To start meeting the Government’s ... More >>
Government Attack On Science Steps Up - New Cash Grab Focus Threatens Callaghan Innovation Scientists
Thursday, 14 March 2024, 9:34 am | PSA
Callaghan Innovation’s new focus on commercial-only research threatens the livelihoods of scores of scientists and risks damaging long term research that benefits New Zealand. "This is another sad consequence of the Government’s reckless austerity drive ... More >>
Care And Support Workers Deliver Open Letter Signed By 9,100 People Calling For Full And Fair Pay Equity Now
Friday, 8 March 2024, 10:57 am | PSA
Delegates from the three unions representing care and support workers are today - on International Women’s Day - delivering an open letter to the head of Te Whatu Ora demanding urgent action on their pay equity claim. "There are 65,000 care ... More >>
Petrol Excise Tax Hike Will Hit Care & Support Workers Hard - Time For Updated Pay Equity Settlement
Tuesday, 5 March 2024, 12:02 pm | PSA
Care & support workers who use their own car to visit clients are calling for action on their pay equity claim before the rise in fuel excise tax hits their pay packets. "The Government promised a laser focus on cost of living but increasing ... More >>
ACC Deep Cuts Could Mean Injured People Forced To Return To Work Too Soon
Friday, 1 March 2024, 9:57 am | PSA
New Zealanders should worry that ACC is being forced to cut spending and possibly jobs which could lead to injured people being forced to return to work before they are ready. ACC’s 4000 workers, 72% of whom are women, were told this week that ... More >>
Government’s Te Aka Whai Ora Urgency Move A Travesty Of Democracy
Tuesday, 27 February 2024, 5:59 pm | PSA
The Government’s decision to ram legislation abolishing Te Aka Whai Ora, the Māori Health Authority, through the House under urgency is a travesty of democracy and an insult to te Tiriti o Waitangi. PSA Te Kaihautū Māori Janice Panoho says the ... More >>
More Than 180 Personal Grievances Claims Lodged Against NIWA For Discrimination
Tuesday, 27 February 2024, 3:41 pm | PSA
More than 180 PSA members have today lodged Personal Grievance claims against NIWA claiming they are being discriminated against because they are union members. PSA members, who are bargaining for a new Collective Agreement, have been denied access ... More >>
Tribunal Hearing On Te Aka Whai Ora Must Go Ahead
Friday, 23 February 2024, 5:34 pm | PSA
Bypassing a Waitangi Tribunal hearing that challenges the closure of Te Aka Whai Ora and its work would show a lack of credibility and accountability from the Government, said the Public Service Association Te Pūkenga Here Tikanga Mahi. Stuff reports ... More >>
Deadline Looms For Plans To Cut Public Services For New Zealanders
Wednesday, 14 February 2024, 2:47 pm | PSA
Savings plans ordered by the Government to fund tax cuts are due to be filed with the relevant Ministers any day now, bringing closer likely cuts to public services. "Without doubt, the scale and breadth of the cuts demanded by the Government ... More >>
