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Oranga Tamariki Axes Specialist Māori Roles, Weakens Commitment To Te Ao Māori
Friday, 26 April 2024, 9:10 am | Public Service Association
The PSA is shocked that Oranga Tamariki has used the cost cutting drive to downgrade its commitment to Te Ao Māori and remove many specialist Māori roles. More >>
More Frontline Cuts As Government Goes Soft On Organised Crime
Monday, 22 April 2024, 2:07 pm | Public Service Association
The Government is putting at risk the defences of our land and sea borders against organised crime, and our online defences against child exploitation, terrorism and online crime with cuts to critical frontline roles at Customs and Internal Affairs. More >>
Mental Health Foundation Facing Staff Cuts From Govt Funding Squeeze
Friday, 19 April 2024, 2:31 pm | Public Service Association
The Mental Health Foundation provides support and resources for those facing the loss of their job, so it’s wrong in the very week the Government adds another 1000 jobs to its tally of cuts, that this is happening. More >>
Minister Concedes Contractors Will Be Hired To Do Work Of Axed Ministry Of Education Staff
Thursday, 18 April 2024, 2:00 pm | Public Service Association
The PSA can’t believe that the Minister of Education is happy for her ministry to hire contractors at the same time it is dismissing 565 workers. More >>
Brutal Day Of Govt Cuts, Axing Support For Children And Young People
Wednesday, 17 April 2024, 1:53 pm | Public Service Association
Oranga Tamariki and Ministry of Education propose scrapping 1012 jobs More >>
More WorkSafe Cuts Will Put Workers’ Health And Safety At Risk
Monday, 15 April 2024, 3:03 pm | Public Service Association
Moves by WorkSafe to start planning for further job cuts risks making New Zealand workplaces less safe, and New Zealand’s already poor worker safety record even worse, the PSA says. In November 2023 WorkSafe disestablished 113 roles , putting ... More >>
Women Bearing Brunt Of Job Cuts At Tertiary Education Commission
Thursday, 11 April 2024, 3:01 pm | Public Service Association
Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) staff were told yesterday (April 10) by their Chief Executive that the organisation is cutting 28 roles including administration and clerical roles like Executive Assistants, Administrators, Executive Officers ... More >>
Another Dark Day For Science And Climate - 90 Jobs To Go At NIWA
Tuesday, 9 April 2024, 10:51 am | Public Service Association
NIWA, one of New Zealand’s leading climate research agencies, is set to lose up to 90 jobs, at a time when our climate crisis is worsening. "This is utter madness at this critical time for New Zealand," said Duane Leo, National Secretary for ... More >>
Attack On Science Steps Up With Jobs Going At Callaghan Innovation
Monday, 8 April 2024, 10:16 pm | Public Service Association
The jobs of 30 scientists and engineers at Callaghan Innovation are the latest casualties of the Government’s drive to reduce its investment in research and development. More >>
Government Cuts Reduce Staff Working On MBIE’s "Frontline Information Channels"
Saturday, 6 April 2024, 12:15 pm | Public Service Association
The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) has proposed reducing its Information and Education (I&E) team by 30 roles, out of approximately 120 roles covered by its change proposal released on Thursday (April 4). More >>
Closing Suicide Prevention Office Among 134 Job Losses Proposed At Health
Thursday, 4 April 2024, 2:21 pm | Public Service Association
"The proposals to axe the Suicide Prevention Office and specialist health workers in mental health make a mockery of the Government’s new portfolio of Minister for Mental Health." More >>
CTU Makes Strong Case For More, Not Less Investment In Public Services
Friday, 8 March 2024, 9:53 am | Public Service Association
The PSA is urging the Government to heed new analysis by the Council of Trade Unions (CTU) that shows government investment in public services risks falling short of population growth over the next four years . "The failure to invest enough, ... More >>
Border Security At Risk With Plans To Cut Staff At Customs
Friday, 23 February 2024, 11:04 am | Public Service Association
The Government’s plan to encourage workers at Customs to take voluntary redundancy puts at risk the vital work of the agency, facilitating a safe and smooth entry and exit through our border, supporting our exports, and keeping New Zealanders safe ... More >>
Government’s Blunt Approach To Public Service Cuts Laid Bare In Last Productivity Commission Report
Tuesday, 20 February 2024, 11:48 am | Public Service Association
As it embarks on a deep and widespread attack on the public service, the Government should heed warnings in the last Productivity Commission report about the impacts of layoffs on workers and families. The report deals with the impacts of economic ... More >>
Nicola Willis Urged To Heed Sensible Advice Of The Public Service Commission
Thursday, 1 February 2024, 5:26 pm | Public Service Association
The body which oversees our Public Service has advised the Minister for the Public Service not to use blunt instruments to reduce expenditure if it wants to avoid impacting essential public services. In its briefing to the Minister Nicola Willis, the Te ... More >>
Mini-Budget Just Creates More Uncertainty For Public Service Workers
Wednesday, 20 December 2023, 3:01 pm | Public Service Association
Today’s much vaunted mini-Budget provides little clarity for thousands of public service workers who now go into the Christmas break with no further understanding of their futures or how services they provide New Zealanders will be cut. The Government ... More >>
PSA Says Abandoning Tax Principles Retrograde Step
Tuesday, 19 December 2023, 11:21 pm | Public Service Association
Scrapping taxation principles reporting is an attack on transparency and accountability, as well as undermining of the role of the public service in informing the public debate on a crucial issue for the future of New Zealand, says the PSA. The Public ... More >>
Early Christmas Gift For Landlords As Government Looks To Axe Workers
Wednesday, 29 November 2023, 9:34 am | Public Service Association
Deeper and more savage cuts to public services could be on the table following revelations of the ballooning cost of tax cuts for landlords. "The Government has made a clear choice to fund the lifestyles of landlords at the expense of a strong public ... More >>
Services Will Suffer If Statistics NZ Continues With Planned Christmas Job Cuts
Thursday, 16 November 2023, 12:32 pm | Public Service Association
The collection and analysis of statistics to support the needs of businesses, government, Māori and various organisations could be threatened if Statistics NZ proceeds with a significant restructure warns the Public Service Association. Statistics NZ today ... More >>
MFAT Must Reverse Damaging Decision To Remove Te Reo From Ministerial Correspondence
Thursday, 16 November 2023, 11:19 am | Public Service Association
The decision by the Foreign Affairs and Trade to remove te reo from Ministerial correspondence before new Ministers are sworn in risks undermining the important progress the public sector has made in honouring te Tiriti. "We are very disappointed ... More >>
