Health New Zealand is proposing to cut almost half of its data and digital positions – more than 1000 of them. The PSA has called on the Privacy Commissioner to urgently investigate the cuts due to the potential for serious consequences for patients. NZNO is calling for an urgent increase in the number of Māori nurses and says the health system needs to do a better job at accepting tikanga. A report by recruitment firm Robert Half shows that New Zealand workers are being offered flexible work hours to offset wide-spread return-to-office requirements.
Union coverage
- PSA: Call for Privacy Commssion investigation into health IT staff cuts
- PSA: Union hits back at ‘astonishing’ Health NZ cuts
- NZNO: More Māori nurses urgently needed – NSO kaiwhakahaere
Employment
Politics
- Government to lower investor threshold to attract wealthy foreigners
- Investor would only have to remain in New Zealand for 21 days under changes to so-called ‘golden visa’
- Major warrant of fitness, CoF change proposed for some vehicles
- Low reoffending rates for private prison prompt $6m in bonuses
- Cook Islands’ diplomatic snub to NZ will be noticed – commentator
- Seymour says letter to police on Polkinghorne was due to role as MP
Te Ao Māori
- John Campbell: Waitangi in the age of the Treaty Principles Bill
- What NZ can learn from Singapore’s compulsory language education
Economics
- Navigating New Zealand’s economic future
- $50m to go into coal mine cleanup as Jones expands sector
- Luxury property sales drop by more than 50 percent
- Plummeting Tesla sales nothing to do with Musk, says consumer expert