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135 health and safety inspectors have to reapply for jobs
Thursday, 28 February 2013, 3:23 pm | Public Service Association
The Public Service Association is warning that a major restructuring of health and safety inspectors risks creating an inspector shortfall. All 135 health and safety inspectors within the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment have been told ... More >>
Measly Minimum Wage Increase Won’t Touch The Sides
Wednesday, 27 February 2013, 2:00 pm | PSA
Measly Minimum Wage Increase Won’t Touch The Sides The measly increase to the minimum wage won’t even touch the sides for already underpaid workers, according to the Public Service Association. More >>
Opportunity to get it right on health and safety
Thursday, 21 February 2013, 3:45 pm | Public Service Association
The Public Service Association says health and safety inspectors will welcome moves to set up a stand-alone health and safety agency as an opportunity to get it right. More >>
Government leaving future and quality of aged care to chance
Wednesday, 20 February 2013, 3:07 pm | Public Service Association
The Public Service Association says the government is leaving the future care of the elderly to chance by refusing to address underfunding, low pay and pay inequity in the aged care sector. More >>
Government Needs To Blaze The Trail On Living Wage
Thursday, 14 February 2013, 9:04 am | PSA
The Public Service Association is calling on the government, as the country’s largest employer and funder of public services, to take the lead and provide a living wage to workers. More >>
Wellington mayor needs more consistency on asset sales
Wednesday, 13 February 2013, 2:58 pm | Public Service Association
The Public Service Association is urging Wellington’s mayor to adopt a more consistent approach when it comes to asset sales and privatisation. More >>
Further public sector cuts likely to push up Capital jobless
Thursday, 7 February 2013, 3:43 pm | Public Service Association
Wellington is unlikely to see any improvement in its jobless figures unless the government changes its thinking on public sector cutbacks, according to the Public Service Association. More >>
Troubled Defence Force could become industrial battleground
Thursday, 31 January 2013, 1:24 pm | Public Service Association
The Public Service Association is warning there will be no improvement in morale at the New Zealand Defence Force until there is a willingness to address high attrition rates and improve pay and conditions for civilian staff. More >>
Working prisons the right approach
Wednesday, 30 January 2013, 2:07 pm | Public Service Association
The Public Service Association says the creation of more working prisons is the right approach which will bring social benefits. More >>
More trouble in education as industrial action looms at NZQA
Friday, 21 December 2012, 1:40 pm | PSA
Staff at the New Zealand Qualifications Authority are looking to hold stop work meetings in the New Year over NZQA’s refusal to negotiate pay and attempts to take positions out of the collective agreement. More >>
Secretary for Education the fall guy for inept Minister
Wednesday, 19 December 2012, 2:52 pm | Public Service Association
The Public Service Association says it’s clear that the Secretary for Education has become the fall guy for an inept Minister. Lesley Longstone, who came from Britain to take up the position, has resigned after just a year in the job. More >>
MPs pay rise hard to swallow
Wednesday, 19 December 2012, 12:40 pm | PSA
The Public Service Association says Parliamentary Services staff will find a pay rise for MPs particularly hard to swallow. More >>
MPI Staff Call Off Industrial Action
Monday, 17 December 2012, 9:52 am | PSA
PSA members at the Ministry for Primary Industries have called off planned industrial action this week after agreement was reached to return to the negotiating table. More >>
Legal action planned against Ministry of Justice
Friday, 14 December 2012, 7:41 pm | PSA
The Public Service Association is planning legal action against the Ministry of Justice over its failure to lift a redundancy waiver for staff moving to work with a private contractor. More >>
Residential School Closure Decisions Must Be Deferred
Wednesday, 12 December 2012, 3:12 pm | Public Service Association
The Public Service Association is calling for all decisions around special residential school closures to be deferred in the wake of the High Court ruling on Nelson’s Salisbury School. More >>
Court services revamp comes at a cost to provincial NZ
Wednesday, 12 December 2012, 1:05 pm | PSA
The Public Service Association says a revamp of court services comes at a cost to provincial New Zealand. More >>
Tougher stance needed on family friendly workplaces
Wednesday, 12 December 2012, 9:42 am | PSA
The Public Service Association says a recommendation from the Children’s Commissioner on Solutions to Child Poverty about family friendly workplaces, doesn’t go far enough. More >>
Final courts announcement could provoke further backlash
Monday, 10 December 2012, 4:47 pm | Public Service Association
The government could face a growing backlash from communities like Dargaville once it makes a final announcement on plans to downgrade or close down local courts, according to the Public Service Association. More >>
Biosecurity boost will simply restore frontline numbers
Friday, 7 December 2012, 5:16 pm | Public Service Association
The Public Service Association says additional biosecurity staff will simply restore frontline numbers to where they were four years ago. More >>
Timing of Auditor General’s report on local govt questioned
Friday, 7 December 2012, 2:20 pm | Public Service Association
The Public Service Association is asking why a key report on local government was not made available during the parliamentary debate on the controversial Local Government Amendment Bill. More >>
