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Sad Day For Workplace Safety As Job Losses Confirmed For WorkSafe
Friday, 3 November 2023, 12:43 pm | PSA
Confirmation of significant job losses at WorkSafe means workplaces across New Zealand will be less safe in coming years, the PSA warned today. The final decisions on WorkSafe’s restructure proposal announced last month confirms 113 roles being disestablished ... More >>
Public Service Leads Way In Closing Gender And Ethnic Pay Gaps And Promoting Women In Leadership
Thursday, 2 November 2023, 4:10 pm | PSA
The PSA welcomes latest data which shows the public service continuing to lead the private sector in closing gender and ethnic pay gaps and promoting women to leadership positions. The 2023 Public Service Workforce Data released by Te Kawa Mataaho (Public ... More >>
Defence Force’s Last-minute Appeal Denies Workers The Payments They Are Owed
Wednesday, 1 November 2023, 1:18 pm | PSA
More than 500 Defence Force workers have been celebrating an Employment Relations Authority determination that awards them backpay. However, a last-minute appeal by the Defence Force to the Employment Court means they now face more uncertainty. "We ... More >>
Unions Welcome A New Model For Employing Staff In The Water Sector
Wednesday, 1 November 2023, 10:47 am | PSA
Members of AWUNZ, E tū, and the PSA have endorsed a multi-union, multi-employer collective agreement that will help improve water services, overcome critical staff shortages, and ensure decent workplaces for everyone working in the industry. "This ... More >>
First Ever International Day For Care And Support: Let’s Make Pay Equity Happen
Sunday, 29 October 2023, 2:05 pm | Public Service Association
Today, on the historic first ever International Day for Care and Support, the Public Service Association Te Pūkenga Here Tikanga Mahi (PSA), E tū, and the New Zealand Nurses Organisation Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa (NZNO) are calling for ... More >>
Health Workers Vote To Accept Pay Equity Settlement Achieving Average Pay Increase Of 20% To 16,000 People
Tuesday, 17 October 2023, 10:07 am | Public Service Association
Today the pay equity claim for roughly 16,000 Allied, Public Health, Scientific, and Technical health workers has been settled which will deliver 20% salary increases for most people covered. The Public Service Association Te Pūkenga Here Tikanga ... More >>
Te Whatu Ora Must Stop Unjustly Delaying Pay Equity For 65,000 Care And Support Workers
Thursday, 5 October 2023, 4:22 pm | PSA
The Public Service Association Te Pūkenga Here Tikanga Mahi (PSA), E tū, and the New Zealand Nurses Organisation Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa (NZNO) are calling on Te Whatu Ora to stop interfering in the Care and Support Workers’ pay ... More >>
18,000 Allied Health Workers Receive Significant Pay Equity Offer
Monday, 2 October 2023, 1:56 pm | PSA
Today about 18,000 health workers in more than 100 Allied professions - including physiotherapists, social workers, and laboratory scientists - are being offered a proposed pay equity settlement to honour the true value of the work they do. Most ... More >>
Health And Safety Of Workers At Risk With WorkSafe Restructuring Proposal
Thursday, 21 September 2023, 2:17 pm | Public Service Association
Workplaces will be less safe following WorkSafe’s decision to significantly restructure the organisation, says the Public Service Association. WorkSafe today unveiled restructuring plans which, if implemented, would significantly impact the organisation’s workforce, ... More >>
National Promises Christmas Chainsaw Massacre - Cuts To Public Services And Jobs
Thursday, 14 September 2023, 11:18 am | PSA
The PSA has called National heartless and thoughtless with its plan revealed today to cut public services and jobs by Christmas. "It’s heartless, it’s reckless and lays bare how ignorant National is about how the public service actually works," ... More >>
Workers At NZ Telehealth Services Vote To Strike For 24 Hours For Fair Pay And Respect
Thursday, 14 September 2023, 11:08 am | PSA
Whakarongorau Aotearoa workers behind New Zealand’s major telehealth services - including Healthline, 1737 Need To Talk?, Quitline, Gambling Helpline, Safe To Talk, Afterhours GP and more - will strike for 24 hours from 3pm Friday 15 September. ... More >>
Watch Out New Zealand, Cuts To Health Spending Coming Under A National-led Government
Wednesday, 13 September 2023, 11:10 am | PSA
National leader Christopher Luxon has today indicated that a National-led government will not invest in the resources in the health system that support the frontline. In an interview on Morning Report, Mr Luxon said that spending on so called frontline ... More >>
PSA Corrections Workers Overwhelmingly Reject Settlement Offer
Tuesday, 12 September 2023, 4:32 pm | PSA
PSA members working for Corrections have overwhelming rejected the Department’s offer to settle the Prisons’ Collective Agreement. PSA Lead Organiser Stella Teariki says 97% of members who attended ratification meetings had voted against the employer’s ... More >>
PSA concerned about the size of cuts to public services
Sunday, 10 September 2023, 6:26 pm | Public Service Association
The PSA is concerned about the likely size of the cuts to public services National will have to make to help fund its tax proposal. The likely scale of the cuts was revealed in an analysis of National’s plans to help fund its tax policy, released ... More >>
Peter Hughes A Strong Advocate For Public Services And Public Service Workers
Thursday, 7 September 2023, 6:19 pm | Public Service Association
Public Service Commissioner Peter Hughes is a strong advocate for a strong public service that delivers results for New Zealanders and strengthens democracy, the PSA says. Public Service Commissioner Peter Hughes has today announced he will retire ... More >>
Make No Mistake A National Government Will Cut The Public Services Kiwis Need
Wednesday, 30 August 2023, 2:13 pm | PSA
National is fooling New Zealanders if it thinks the public sector can continue to support the services this country needs with its plan to slash spending by $8b, said the PSA. "The plan announced today would mean a total of $8b being cut from ... More >>
Public Service Workers Must Help Identify Savings In Government New Cost Cutting Drive
Monday, 28 August 2023, 6:04 pm | PSA
Public sector chief executives have been urged to consult their workers to identify the savings demanded by the Finance Minister today, says the Public Service Association. "While it’s never a good time to cut spending on public services, we understand ... More >>
Irresponsible ACT policy threatens independent public service
Sunday, 20 August 2023, 1:48 pm | Public Service Association
The ACT party’s public service policy released today shows it has no concept of why the public service needs to be independent of the whims of Ministers. "ACT wants to turn back the clock more than 100 years and allow our independent public ... More >>
PSA condemns ACT leader’s comment on Ministry for Pacific Peoples
Friday, 18 August 2023, 6:11 pm | Public Service Association
The Public Service Association (PSA) says the harassment of staff at the Ministry for Pacific Peoples on Thursday morning is alarming and disquieting. The PSA also condemns media comments made by ACT Leader David Seymour about the Ministry. The ... More >>
Allied Health Workers To Rally Tonight Across Aotearoa For ‘Hour Of Power’ Calling For Urgent Action On Pay Equity
Wednesday, 16 August 2023, 11:28 am | PSA
Tonight at 6pm, Allied health workers with their union - the Public Service Association Te Pūkenga Here Tikanga Mahi, their whānau, and communities, will rally at nine ‘Hour of Power’ events nationwide. "The Hour of Power is a call for urgent ... More >>
