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PSA welcomes Inland Revenue’s halt to psychometric testing
Wednesday, 11 October 2017, 2:38 pm | Public Service Association
The Public Service Association welcomes Inland Revenue’s sensible decision to suspend the use of psychometric testing as part of its controversial Business Transformation restructure following a legal challenge on behalf of PSA members, but cautions that ... More >>
Parents’ plea: Don’t let any more of our kids die
Tuesday, 10 October 2017, 12:20 pm | Public Service Association
Parents who lost their 15-year-old daughter to suicide two months ago delivered a 30,000-strong petition to Parliament today to mark World Mental Health Day. More >>
PSA taking Inland Revenue to court over psychometrics
Monday, 9 October 2017, 5:03 pm | Public Service Association
The Public Service Association will be seeing Inland Revenue in Employment Court over its intention to psychometrically test employees reapplying for their roles at the department as part of its controversial Business Transformation restructuring ... More >>
ERA finds in favour of the PSA
Tuesday, 3 October 2017, 11:27 am | Public Service Association
The Employment Relations Authority (ERA) has determined that the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) must bargain pay in good faith with the Public Service Association, which is a major win for the civilian staff at NZDF, says the PSA. More >>
PSA national secretaries vote for equal pay on Suffrage Day
Tuesday, 19 September 2017, 2:35 pm | PSA
Today, PSA national secretaries Erin Polaczuk and Glenn Barclay are advance voting for the 2017 election alongside their daughters, with equal pay and fairness in mind on the 124th anniversary of women’s suffrage in New Zealand. More >>
National’s health report card gets an ‘F’ for funding
Tuesday, 19 September 2017, 12:52 pm | PSA
Persistent underfunding of the health system over the last nine years is having a severely negative impact on the quality and timeliness of services, and funding must urgently be restored by the next government if we are to avert the worst of an impending ... More >>
Code of Conduct gives new government a fresh start
Wednesday, 13 September 2017, 3:18 pm | Public Service Association
Clarity around the distinctive and different roles and responsibilities of independent public servants and political staff will give the incoming government and its staff a fresh start, says Public Service Association national secretary Glenn Barclay. More >>
PSA welcomes Green Party plan to reduce youth suicide
Monday, 11 September 2017, 1:48 pm | PSA
The Green Party’s ‘Vision Zero’ plan to reduce youth suicide offers several practicable steps towards lowering the high number of young people who take their own lives in New Zealand, and the PSA is offering to work with the relevant Government ... More >>
Social workers’ Hīkoi Whakaara concludes with rally
Sunday, 3 September 2017, 1:03 pm | Public Service Association
Canterbury social workers, who have walked almost 100km during the Hīkoi Whakaara of the last three days, will arrive in Cathedral Square at 2pm today to rally against four issues from the frontline of their work: poverty, inequality, homelessness and ... More >>
Mental health and suicide prevention services under threat
Friday, 1 September 2017, 2:24 pm | PSA
Mental health and suicide prevention services under threat at Nelson Marlborough DHB due to restructure More >>
Latest suicide statistics a wakeup call for New Zealand
Monday, 28 August 2017, 12:21 pm | Public Service Association
Provisional annual suicide statistics for 2016/17 released today by the Chief Coroner show more people taking their own lives than ever recorded before, and it should be a wakeup call for New Zealand to truly address the crisis in mental health services ... More >>
PREFU protest: Robbing nurse Peta to pay surplus Paul
Wednesday, 23 August 2017, 1:18 pm | Public Service Association
The Public Service Association and YesWeCare.nz coalition is protesting today’s PREFU announcment calling the surplus “artificial”. The union and health coalition have set up 100 life sized-cut outs of missing health workers outside Newtown Primary ... More >>
PSA Presents 'Progressive Thinking' Booklet on Housing
Monday, 21 August 2017, 12:11 pm | PSA
The Public Service Association is thrilled to present Progressive Thinking: ten perspectives on housing ; an edited booklet that brings together some of New Zealand’s finest minds in housing policy for a conversation on an issue of prime importance to our ... More >>
PSA Launches Progressive Thinking on Housing Booklet
Friday, 18 August 2017, 1:10 pm | PSA
WHAT: The launch of the PSA’s Progressive Thinking: ten perspectives on housing; a booklet featuring ten leading authors, academics and campaigners writing journalistically on a range of topics in housing. It includes contributions from Alan Johnson (Salvation ... More >>
Oranga Tamariki’s staff exodus
Thursday, 17 August 2017, 2:30 pm | Public Service Association
The number of social workers leaving Child, Youth and Family during the formation of Oranga Tamariki was largely down to the expertise of long-serving staff being ignored in the review process and a costly and wasteful Expert Advisory Panel (EAP) ... More >>
Opposition offering a clear choice on equal pay
Tuesday, 15 August 2017, 4:27 pm | Public Service Association
A change of government would make pay equity a reality following announcements from the Labour and Green parties over the past weekend, offering a sharp contrast from the current Government’s attempt to shut down current claims under new and restrictive ... More >>
No excuse for denying mental health workers equal pay
Tuesday, 15 August 2017, 12:40 pm | Public Service Association
A leaked letter from the Ministry of Health to DHBs warning them not to extend equal pay to mental health support workers confirms that the Government is wilfully ignoring the current crisis in mental health, which the Public Service Association considers ... More >>
Smoke & Mirrors from National on Mental Health Yet Again
Tuesday, 15 August 2017, 9:01 am | PSA
The National Party’s re-announcement of an already inadequate response to the crisis in mental health does very little to aid the sector and is utterly insufficient to address growing demand and cost pressures in the mental health system, says the Public ... More >>
National’s ‘pay equity’ Bill is a wolf in sheep’s clothing
Tuesday, 8 August 2017, 11:17 am | Public Service Association
The Government’s new Employment (Pay Equity and Equal Pay) Bill is a cynical attempt to close the door on future equal pay settlements and represents a major distortion of the initial principles of pay equity negotiated by the Government, unions and ... More >>
Workers speak out against phony "pay equity" Bill
Tuesday, 8 August 2017, 10:01 am | Public Service Association
Tomorrow, the Government’s Employment (Pay Equity and Equal Pay) Bill will likely be read for the first time, and politicians and workers are coming together to speak out against it. More >>
