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PSA Welcomes Green Budget Which Restores Funding To The Public Service
Wednesday, 14 May 2025, 11:48 am | PSA
The Green Budget, released today, reinstates funding to the public service including areas the Government has sharply cut and underfunded - primary health care, Oranga Tamariki and public housing. More >>
Public Service Work From Home Policies Dispute Heading To Employment Relations Authority
Tuesday, 13 May 2025, 5:22 pm | PSA
Public Service Association Te Pūkenga Here Tikanga Mahi National Secretary, Fleur Fitzsimons, said they were dismayed to have not settled the matter quickly for public sector workers. More >>
Working From Home Dispute In Mediation Today - Will Govt Support Women On This?
Tuesday, 13 May 2025, 7:03 am | PSA
The PSA filed action with the Employment Relations Authority last December to stop the Government from restricting flexible workplace practices, which disproportionately impacts women who make up 62% of public service workers. More >>
Protect The Tribunal, Protect The Treaty: Oppose The Government’s Review Of The Waitangi Tribunal
Monday, 12 May 2025, 11:10 am | PSA
The proposal to limit the Tribunal’s scope and reframe its inquiries according to a political agenda, as outlined in the coalition agreement between National and New Zealand First, is deeply concerning. More >>
Nearly $3m Wasted On Consultants Hired To Plan Axing Of Health Workers
Monday, 12 May 2025, 8:51 am | PSA
The public health system has been starved of money by this government. It should have been expanding the Health NZ workforce and not paying expensive consultants to help lay off so many loyal workers. It’s a slap in the face for those shown ... More >>
Government’s Attack On Pay Equity A Major Setback For Māori And Pacific Wāhine
Thursday, 8 May 2025, 2:00 pm | PSA
Announced without consultation and passed into law last night, the rollback creates new barriers to pay equity claims and undermines hard-won gains in fairness and justice, says PSA Te Kaihautū Māori Janice Panoho. More >>
Protests Against The Government’s Pay Equity Legislation
Thursday, 8 May 2025, 12:47 pm | PSA
The changes will take money from underpaid, predominantly female workers to plug the gap in the Government’s budget caused by its reckless, unaffordable policies such as multi-billion dollar tax relief for landlords. More >>
$19,480 And Rising: The Cost Women Workers Are Paying To Plug Govt’s Budget Holes
Wednesday, 7 May 2025, 2:47 pm | PSA
With no new pay equity settlement being agreed, care and support workers have seen their hard-won pay equity settlement eroded by inflation and the failure to maintain relativity above the minimum wage. More >>
Dark Day For Women As Government Slams Brakes On Pay Equity To Save Money
Tuesday, 6 May 2025, 12:12 pm | PSA
"The PSA is exploring all possible avenues to oppose these unconstitutional amendments and stop this attack on women. We will not be deterred in our fight to achieve pay equity for all." More >>
Mental Health Workforce Crisis Exposed - Urgent Action Needed Now
Tuesday, 6 May 2025, 11:22 am | PSA
The draft report said 1,485 more frontline mental health and addiction workers were needed right now, including 470 specialist nurses, 145 psychiatrists and 145 clinical psychologists. More >>
PSA Welcomes Increased Defence Spend On Civilian Salaries
Monday, 5 May 2025, 2:00 pm | PSA
The PSA has welcomed the news from the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) that $33 million will be allocated to staff pay increases over the next four years as the result of last year’s industrial action. More >>
Auditor-General Urged To Investigate Cuts To Experts Stopping Health Fraud
Monday, 5 May 2025, 7:06 am | PSA
The Audit and Assurance Directorate at Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora is a critical unit focused on ensuring some $12 billion of annual funding of the primary health care sector is paid out correctly and not subject to fraud. More >>
Patient Care Still At Risk From Govt’s Deep Cuts To Health IT Workers
Thursday, 1 May 2025, 7:23 am | PSA
Health NZ Te Whatu Ora today confirmed deep cuts to the Data and Digital team, with impacted staff informed of their roles being disestablished and redeployment opportunities in the new structure. More >>
Home Support Workers To Strike Over Poor Pay, ‘Broken’ System
Wednesday, 30 April 2025, 11:41 am | PSA
Access Community Health support workers will strike from 12-2pm on Thursday, 1 May - International Workers’ Day - the same day as senior doctors and Auckland City Hospital’s perioperative nurses will also walk off the job. More >>
Cuts To Public Services Will Be Opposed: Austerity Does Not Work
Tuesday, 29 April 2025, 12:36 pm | PSA
Nicola Willis talks about ‘limited fiscal means’ forcing cuts to the operating allowance - well, she is the author of those, and it is a choice that she made.The PSA will strongly resist any further threats to the jobs of public service or health ... More >>
Govt’s Further Backtrack On Te Tiriti O Waitangi At Pharmac Endangers Māori Health
Monday, 28 April 2025, 5:04 pm | PSA
"This is an abandonment of Pharmac’s commitment to the health of Māori and another breach of Te Tiriti o Waitangi," said Janice Panoho, Te Kaihautū Māori for the Public Service Association Te Pūkenga Here Tikanga Mahi. More >>
PSA Forces Changes To Restructure Of Data & Digital And Pacific Health
Wednesday, 23 April 2025, 12:58 pm | PSA
The settlement relates to proposed restructures of the Data and Digital and Pacific Health teams at Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora which were subject to litigation before the Employment Relations Authority set down for 22 April 2025. More >>
Health Infrastructure Plan Ushering In Privatisation Of The Health System
Wednesday, 16 April 2025, 4:13 pm | PSA
Privatisation will inevitably mean syphoning money off from providing health services for all to pay profits to private corporations. This will result in only those who can pay being able to access adequate health care and other vital services. More >>
Job Losses At Callaghan Innovation Continue To Climb - 64 Redundancies Announced Today
Wednesday, 16 April 2025, 2:51 pm | PSA
People with valuable skills are being cast aside, even though their skills are important for the future science system. The Minister has said that the science reforms are not about job losses but you only have to look at Callaghan Innovation to see this ... More >>
Madness To Slash Reserve Bank Budget At A Time Of Economic Challenge
Wednesday, 16 April 2025, 2:33 pm | PSA
The bank’s inflation mandate is a key tool for economic management. It fights inflation so the economy can flourish without the damaging impacts of runaway inflation. More >>
