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Nicola Willis Urged To Heed Sensible Advice Of The Public Service Commission
Thursday, 1 February 2024, 5:26 pm | Public Service Association
The body which oversees our Public Service has advised the Minister for the Public Service not to use blunt instruments to reduce expenditure if it wants to avoid impacting essential public services. In its briefing to the Minister Nicola Willis, the Te ... More >>
Wider And Deeper Cuts To Public Services On Cards As Government Scrambles To Fund Tax Cuts
Wednesday, 24 January 2024, 1:38 pm | PSA
Public services relied on by New Zealanders are at risk as the Prime Minister Christopher Luxon comes clean and reveals the true extent of the Government’s plans to cut public services. In the election campaign National identified 24 government departments ... More >>
Mini-Budget Just Creates More Uncertainty For Public Service Workers
Wednesday, 20 December 2023, 3:01 pm | Public Service Association
Today’s much vaunted mini-Budget provides little clarity for thousands of public service workers who now go into the Christmas break with no further understanding of their futures or how services they provide New Zealanders will be cut. The Government ... More >>
PSA Says Abandoning Tax Principles Retrograde Step
Tuesday, 19 December 2023, 11:21 pm | Public Service Association
Scrapping taxation principles reporting is an attack on transparency and accountability, as well as undermining of the role of the public service in informing the public debate on a crucial issue for the future of New Zealand, says the PSA. The Public ... More >>
Weather Forecasters And Others At NIWA Take Strike Action
Monday, 11 December 2023, 4:23 pm | PSA
Climate scientists and technicians including, marine and freshwater biologists, geologists, ocean ecologists and other support staff at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) have gone on strike to push for an improved ... More >>
Statistics NZ Accepts Restructure Process Flawed, But Presses Ahead With Job Cuts
Monday, 11 December 2023, 11:20 am | PSA
The PSA is disappointed Statistics NZ is pressing ahead with a restructure that will result in the loss of 28 jobs. "This will be a shock to many workers and their whānau this close to Christmas and our hearts go out to them - this was not ... More >>
Workers At Radio New Zealand Warn Of Industrial Action Over Pay Claim
Friday, 8 December 2023, 3:29 pm | PSA
The failure of RNZ management to agree to a pay rise which fairly reflects the rising cost of living could see workers at RNZ take industrial action warns the PSA and E tū. Workers are pushing for a 7% rise while RNZ is offering 5.5%. "Workers ... More >>
Nicola Willis Threat To Back Track On Te Reo Allowances Will Be Strongly Resisted
Wednesday, 6 December 2023, 10:11 am | PSA
The PSA is deeply disappointed by the threat from new Public Services Minister Nicola Willis to remove allowances recognising competency in Te Reo across the public sector. "We will resist any backtracking on the progress we have made in recognising ... More >>
Early Christmas Gift For Landlords As Government Looks To Axe Workers
Wednesday, 29 November 2023, 9:34 am | Public Service Association
Deeper and more savage cuts to public services could be on the table following revelations of the ballooning cost of tax cuts for landlords. "The Government has made a clear choice to fund the lifestyles of landlords at the expense of a strong public ... More >>
Coalition Agreement Threatens Services New Zealanders Rely On And Risks Racial Division
Friday, 24 November 2023, 2:07 pm | PSA
The incoming Government’s coalition agreements are a blueprint for slashing the public and community services New Zealanders rely on and risk setting back race relations. "The plans unveiled today represent an attack on public and community services, ... More >>
Government Grinches Risk Stealing Christmas For Thousands Of Social Workers Owed A Pay Rise
Thursday, 23 November 2023, 3:55 pm | PSA
The Government is dragging the chain over agreed pay equity payments for thousands of social workers in community and iwi organisations a year after promising to pay these workers fairly. "It’s disappointing that these significant payments ... More >>
Unions File Pay Equity Claim For 65,000 Care And Support Workers
Tuesday, 21 November 2023, 1:13 pm | PSA
A second pay equity claim has been filed for care and support workers by their unions - the Public Service Association Te Pūkenga Here Tikanga Mahi, E tū, the National Union of Public Employees and New Zealand Nurses Organisation Tōpūtanga Tapuhi ... More >>
Services Will Suffer If Statistics NZ Continues With Planned Christmas Job Cuts
Thursday, 16 November 2023, 12:32 pm | Public Service Association
The collection and analysis of statistics to support the needs of businesses, government, Māori and various organisations could be threatened if Statistics NZ proceeds with a significant restructure warns the Public Service Association. Statistics NZ today ... More >>
MFAT Must Reverse Damaging Decision To Remove Te Reo From Ministerial Correspondence
Thursday, 16 November 2023, 11:19 am | Public Service Association
The decision by the Foreign Affairs and Trade to remove te reo from Ministerial correspondence before new Ministers are sworn in risks undermining the important progress the public sector has made in honouring te Tiriti. "We are very disappointed ... More >>
PSA Calls On Incoming Governing Parties To Support A Strong Public Service
Tuesday, 7 November 2023, 12:39 pm | PSA
As we celebrate Public Service Day today, the PSA has urged National, ACT and NZ First to acknowledge the valuable work of public service workers and continue to support them. "We celebrate Public Service Day to acknowledge the critical and ... More >>
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 >>
