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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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
