The Council of Trade Unions met with Brooke van Velden and demanded that she reversed the recent pay equity changes. Remaining staff members at polytech UCOL may be expected to pick up some of the work of colleagues made redundant if a proposed restructure goes ahead. Health NZ on Thursday paid out more than $60 million to thousands of current staff in the Wellington region for incorrectly calculated holiday leave. Judith Collins’ office was closely involved in rewriting the Public Service Commission’s only sectorwide survey, Official Information Act documents show. The Treasury has backed down after initially excluding CTU economist Craig Renney from next week’s Budget lock-up.
Union coverage
- CTU: Richard Wagstaff to step down as president of the CTU
- CTU: Brooke van Velden meets with Council of Trade Unions after pay equity changes
- CTU: Union accuses minister of ‘passing the buck’ on pay equity changes in ‘frank’ meeting
- CTU: Union leaders say meeting with Brooke van Velden yielded little
- CTU: Workplace Relations Minister refuses regular meetings with union
- CTU: CTU meet with Workplace Relations Minister
- CTU: Treasury reverses restriction on Budget lock-up, accepts CTU economist
- CTU: What the Equal Pay Act changes really mean for women
- E tū: Pay equity issue will not go away
- TEU: Union calls for more info about proposed job cuts
- PSA: Department of Conservation could lose another 68 roles in effort to cut costs
- PSA: Judith Collins defiant over survey involvement: ‘The Greens are frankly bonkers’
- PSA, NZNO: Christchurch health workers share struggles as sector faces increasing pressure
- NZEI: School support staff protest outside Erica Stanford’s Auckland office for more pay
Employment
- Health NZ pays Wellington region more than $60 million after holiday pay botch-up
- Violence ‘normalised’ in ED departments: Survey
- Poor political strategy fans pay equity fury
Politics
- Social services react to damning report into Oranga Tamariki
- NZ launches world first anonymous reporting platform to combat foreign bribery
- Chris Hipkins takes responsibility for Labour MP’s question that led to C-bomb
- NZ First wants changes to Regulatory Standards Bill
- How the Opposition could derail Budget day and save Te Pāti Māori
- Privileges Committee report on Te Pāti Māori’s haka to be debated, voted on next Tuesday
Budget 2025
- Budget 2025: Nicola Willis announces $190m ‘Social Investment Fund’
- Budget 2025: Nicola Willis announces half-billion-dollar boost for film industry
- $100 million Budget boost for maths support
- Green Party pitches $20b wealth tax for free GP visits, ECE, and dental
Te Ao Māori
- Five Gisborne marae to move to safer ground with Govt support
- Internet hui: Māori forge path into digital future
- The House: Wake-up call to MPs over building relationships after Treaty settlements
Economics
- Housing market flatlines as winter approaches
- NZX scraps the need for financial forecasts from companies wanting to list
- Natural disasters have cost Government, private insurers $64 billion since 2010
- Rich-lister Peter Huljich revealed as Pushpay ‘true insider’
Opinion
- Pay equity was becoming unrealistic, both in cost and credibility
- Reshaping health care requires new ways of thinking – and operating
- Historic opportunity to transform economy through research and science
- A surplus of defence riches, but lack of skill and experience
- Tribunal’s history based on making the country a better place