Any risk to health and safety identified must be dealt with. Things used, and actions taken to address risks to health and safety are called… Read More »Managing Risks to Health and Safety Information for Workers
Guidance for workers and union officials Being exposed to cold temperatures for a long time at work can harm your health and safety. Your employer… Read More »Working safely in cold temperatures
The NZCTU strongly opposes the Health and Safety at Work Amendment Bill. The proposed changes are regressive and actively weaken the systems in place to… Read More »Submission on the Health and Safety at Work Amendment Bill
Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety Brooke van Velden’s Health and Safety at Work Amendment Bill has passed its first reading. This Bill is the most… Read More »Submission Guide | Health and Safety at Work Amendment Bill
The new Health and Safety at Work Amendment Bill is a dangerous move away from the longstanding commitment to ensure all workers should come home… Read More »Health and Safety changes will harm workers
This year for their 16 days of activism against gender-based violence, UN Women are highlighting the impacts of digital violence against women and girls. 1… Read More »Digital Violence in the Workplace
More than 45 unions, educators, occupational health and safety experts, academics, and public health organisations have signed an open letter calling on the Prime Minister… Read More »Unions, educators, and health leaders demand urgent review into asbestos failures
Rt Hon. Christopher Luxon, Prime MinisterHon. Brooke van Velden, Minister for Workplace Relations and SafetyHon. Simeon Brown, Minister for HealthHon. Casey Costello, Minister for CustomsHon.… Read More »Open letter demand urgent review into asbestos failures
The NZCTU Te Kauae Kaimahi is calling on the Government to honour the memories of the workers who lost their lives fifteen years ago today… Read More »Unions call on Govt to pass corporate manslaughter law
Submitted by the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions Te Kauae Kaimahi7 November 2025 This submission is made on behalf of the 32 unions affiliated… Read More »Proposal to revoke Asbestos Code of Practice
The NZCTU Te Kauae Kamahi is strongly concerned with WorkSafe’s proposal to remove the asbestos Approved Code of Practice (ACOP) and replace it with other… Read More »Proposal to revoke asbestos code of practice concerning
The New Zealand Council of Trade Unions Te Kauae Kaimahi is concerned that the artificial intelligence (AI) “strategy” document released today by the Government ignores… Read More »Workers absent from government’s AI “strategy”