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PSA Welcomes Extra Funding For CYF
Thursday, 24 May 2001, 3:10 pm | Public Service Association
The PSA is glad the government has put its money where its mouth is by boosting funding for Child Youth and Family, says PSA National Secretary Richard Wagstaff. More >>
Restructuring not the answer, says PSA
Thursday, 12 April 2001, 2:44 pm | Public Service Association
The PSA is disappointed with the announcement to re-merge the Ministry of Social Policy and the Department of Work and Income. "The decision has been rushed through without consultation or adequate thought", says PSA national secretary ... More >>
Super-Ministry ‘Floating’ Will Raise Fears - PSA
Thursday, 22 March 2001, 4:26 pm | Public Service Association
‘Any return to major restructuring in the public service sector would be completely counter productive,’ the PSA national secretary Richard Wagstaff said today. More >>
Standards Board Objectives In Line With PSA
Monday, 12 March 2001, 11:33 am | Public Service Association
The PSA’s Partnership for Quality approach to a better quality state sector, with more valued employees and an improved delivery of services sits, very well alongside the objectives of the report from the State Sector Standards Board, the union says. More >>
Budget Money The ‘Real Test’– PSA
Thursday, 1 March 2001, 12:40 am | Public Service Association
The PSA - the union representing Child Youth and Family workers – today said the findings of Judge Mick Brown’s report presented a ‘logical and acceptable path to a better resourced department able to deliver a quality service.’ More >>
Unallocated Cases Show Need For Action - PSA
Friday, 23 February 2001, 11:40 am | Public Service Association
The new detail about the number of unallocated cases facing Child Youth and Family workers shows the ‘absolute necessity’ of building the capacity of the department, the PSA said this morning. More >>
Partnership Gets The ERO Pass Mark
Wednesday, 21 February 2001, 11:55 am | Public Service Association
A progressive partnership agreement between the Education Review Office and the union representing its staff, the PSA, is to be signed this afternoon - just days after the independent future of the school inspection agency was guaranteed in the Government ... More >>
Proper Resourcing Crucial To ERO Revamp - PSA
Wednesday, 14 February 2001, 2:00 pm | Public Service Association
The PSA, the union for Education Review Office staff, said today the ‘fresh direction proposed for the organisation must be properly resourced otherwise it will fail.’ More >>
Agencies' Role In CYFS Needs Careful Consideration
Tuesday, 13 February 2001, 4:40 pm | Public Service Association
The role volunteer welfare agencies are set to play in the Child Youth and Family Services needs to be clearly detailed and monitored, the PSA said today. More >>
PSA welcomes State’s ‘end of uncertainty’
Thursday, 8 February 2001, 5:52 pm | Public Service Association
The PSA, the union representing State Insurance workers, said today’s announcement of the company’s sale to NRMA insurance was ‘a welcome end to the uncertainty that has been hovering over State staff for a considerable time.’ More >>
Recognition of the demands on social workers welc
Monday, 5 February 2001, 1:21 pm | Public Service Association
The PSA said today it was keen to lessen the dangers front-line social workers face but equally was ‘glad there was, at long last, a clear and increasing recognition about the demands and reality of the work these people do.’ More >>
PSA ‘Buoyed’ By Govt Response On Performance Pay
Friday, 26 January 2001, 12:59 am | Public Service Association
The PSA today said it was buoyed by - and supportive of – comments by the State Services Minister, Trevor Mallard on performance pay in the public sector. More >>
PSA wants redundancy pay for Terralink workers
Tuesday, 23 January 2001, 8:41 am | Public Service Association
The announcement today that the 67 workers previously employed by Terralink will receive the wages and holiday pay owed to them is welcomed by the PSA. But it is concerned the 67 workers and Terralink’s remaining staff face losing the redundancy ... More >>
Extra Leave ‘Entirely Justified’ - PSA
Wednesday, 17 January 2001, 2:39 pm | Public Service Association
The three days extra leave granted to Housing New Zealand staff at Christmas was an entirely justified recognition of the unpaid hours they put in throughout the year to implement the government’s new income-related rents policy the PSA says. More >>
Performance Bonuses Cumbersome And Unsatisfactory
Tuesday, 16 January 2001, 4:29 pm | Public Service Association
Performance bonuses are a ‘common but cumbersome and unsatisfactory part of the mish-mash of pay systems operating in today’s public sector,’ the PSA says. More >>
Attack On CYFS Counter-Productive And Dangerous
Monday, 15 January 2001, 9:39 am | Public Service Association
‘Over-the-top’ criticism of the performance bonuses paid to some Child Youth and Family Services staff was ‘further evidence of the agenda of some people to continue to try and stigmatise and downgrade this essential public service,’ the PSA says. More >>
Case For Improved Social Worker Pay ‘Compelling"
Wednesday, 29 November 2000, 12:48 am | Public Service Association
The case for improving the pay of social workers and front line staff at the Department of Child Youth and Family Services has been thoroughly researched and argued, the PSA national secretary Richard Wagstaff said today. More >>
Pay Central To Public Service Rebuilding – PSA
Wednesday, 22 November 2000, 12:40 am | Public Service Association
Improved pay and conditions must be central to the ‘immediate and urgent’ rebuilding of the public service, says PSA national secretary Richard Wagstaff. More >>
Ability To Deliver The Key – PSA
Monday, 20 November 2000, 12:54 am | Public Service Association
The creation of a standards board for the state sector is a positive and much-needed move, the PSA national secretary Richard Wagstaff says. More >>
Action not undermining needed - PSA
Tuesday, 7 November 2000, 8:58 pm | Public Service Association
The PSA, the union representing workers in Child Youth and Family Services, says action on staffing – both in increased numbers and better training and deployment – is needed to meet the worsening caseload crisis and fears about the Department’s ... More >>
