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Obesity Response Won't Help Most At Risk
Wednesday, 28 November 2007, 10:25 am | PSA
Public Health Association (PHA) Director Dr Gay Keating says the Government's response to the Health Select Committee Inquiry into Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes will do little to help those most at risk. More >>
PSA Wins Important Decision In ERA
Monday, 26 November 2007, 4:10 pm | Public Service Association
The public and health workers in Otago will benefit from an Employment Relations Authority decision gained by the PSA. More >>
Statistics NZ Jeopardising Key Economic Indicators
Friday, 23 November 2007, 4:41 pm | PSA
Statistics NZ is jeopardising the release of important economic indicators by refusing to let the bulk of its staff negotiate their pay. More >>
Statistics NZ Staff Walking Off The Job
Wednesday, 21 November 2007, 2:03 pm | Public Service Association
Staff at Statistics NZ, who belong to the PSA, are walking off the job tomorrow afternoon at two o’clock and will not return to work for the rest of the day. More >>
Statistics NZ Staff Walking Off The Job
Wednesday, 21 November 2007, 1:49 pm | PSA
Staff at Statistics NZ, who belong to the PSA, are walking off the job tomorrow afternoon at two o'clock and will not return to work for the rest of the day. More >>
PSA Pleased With Changes to Electoral Finance Bill
Tuesday, 20 November 2007, 9:47 am | PSA
The PSA is pleased with changes made to the Electoral Finance Bill as it makes the funding of political parties more transparent which is good for democracy. More >>
PSA: More Than Words Needed from SSC
Thursday, 15 November 2007, 11:49 am | PSA
"The State Services Commissioner needs to provide public services managers with clear guidelines and training on how they handle possible conflicts of inflicts, like those that arose in the Madeleine Setchell case," says Brenda Pilott, National ... More >>
Concern About Handleing of Conflicts of Interest
Wednesday, 14 November 2007, 4:34 pm | PSA
The PSA welcomes the comprehensive reports issued today into the Madeleine Setchell case but remains concerned about the ability of public service managers to handle future cases involving potential conflicts of interest. More >>
PSA Concerned About Managing Conflicts of Interest
Wednesday, 14 November 2007, 1:02 pm | Public Service Association
The PSA welcomes the comprehensive reports issued today into the Madeleine Setchell case but remains concerned about the ability of public service managers to handle future cases involving potential conflicts of interest. More >>
Use Statistics NZ Staff Escalate Industrial Action
Sunday, 11 November 2007, 12:43 am | PSA
Field interviewers have stopped sending information on price changes used to compile the Food Price Index (FPI) and the Cost Post Index (CPI). More >>
Council Staff Shocked At Attack from New Mayor
Tuesday, 6 November 2007, 5:15 pm | Public Service Association
Far North District Council staff are shocked that the district’s new Mayor has begun his first term by insulting and threatening them and scrapping all of the previous council’s committees. More >>
PSA CEO's Earn Less Than Corporate CEO's
Thursday, 18 October 2007, 2:19 pm | Public Service Association
“Public service chief executives may be earning hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, but their counterparts in the private sector are earning millions of dollars,” says PSA National Secretary Brenda Pilott. More >>
Statistics NZ Staff Hold More Rallies
Wednesday, 17 October 2007, 9:49 am | Public Service Association
Staff at Statistics NZ are holding further rallies as part of their industrial action for the right to negotiate their pay. More >>
Statistics NZ Staff Hold More Rallies
Wednesday, 17 October 2007, 9:45 am | PSA
Staff at Statistics NZ are holding further rallies as part of their industrial action for the right to negotiate their pay. More >>
Statistics NZ Staff Step Up Industrial Action
Sunday, 14 October 2007, 12:19 am | PSA
More than 540 staff at Statistics NZ, who belong to the PSA, are stepping up their industrial action. More >>
NZ's Public Service Is Least Corrupt
Thursday, 11 October 2007, 2:35 pm | PSA
The PSA says a survey assessing the integrity of New Zealand's state sector workers confirms their ranking as the least corrupt in the world but does show the need to improve some aspects of workplace behaviour. More >>
Statistics Staff Attend Rallies As Part Of Action
Friday, 5 October 2007, 12:06 am | Public Service Association
More than 170 staff at Statistics NZ took part in lunchtime rallies and other activities today. More >>
PSA Calls For Transparent Funding Of Parties
Thursday, 27 September 2007, 3:54 pm | Public Service Association
The country’s largest union, the PSA, says the funding of political parties needs to be more transparent. More >>
Which Assets Would National Partially Privatise?
Tuesday, 25 September 2007, 3:35 pm | Public Service Association
“National needs to come clean and tell the country which state owned assets it would partially privatise,” says Brenda Pilott, National Secretary of the PSA which represents 55,000 workers employed in the state sector and local government. More >>
Cutting Council Staff Sells Communities Short
Tuesday, 25 September 2007, 11:59 am | Public Service Association
“Candidates in the local government elections that promote cuts in council staff are selling their communities short,” says, Brenda Pilott, National Secretary of the PSA, which represents 5000 local government workers. More >>
