Election 2017 - Party Policies - Labour and Employment - Industrial Relations
27th May 17, 9:20am
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Industrial Relations
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- Support a complete review of the Employments Relations Act.
- Improve rights and protection for casual, seasonal, fixed term and temporary workers.
- Improve workplace democracy and improve workers’ union representation and participation in the future of their work.
- Implement international standards on the right to strike, worker accident compensation, pay equity and breastfeeding breaks.
- Promote multi departmental collective bargaining of consistent wages & conditions for state sector workers.
- Read more here.
- Introduce Fair Pay Agreements that set fair, basic employment conditions across an industry. Make sure that the country’s mental health workers are a priority when it comes to pay equity negotiations.
- Replacing the current National Government’s ‘fire at will’ law with fair trial periods that provide both protection against unjustified dismissal and a simple, fair, and fast referee service.
- Promoting the Living Wage by paying it to all workers in the core public service, and extending it to contractors over time.
- Guarantee every worker who loses their job as a result of technological change has adequate retraining and support.
- Create new employment-relations framework and collective-agreement targets. Focused on enabling effective unionisation, and that Government sets a target of growing the number of workers covered by collective-employment agreements.
- Read more here, here, here, and here.
- Ensure local and central government procurement policies include employment and workforce development outcomes for Māori and Pacific Island whānau.
- Establish 1,000 employment-focused navigators to connect Māori and Pacific Island jobseekers with employers and also provide pastoral care and support.
- Introduce fee free Master of Business Administration (MBA) programmes for people who have the relevant work experience but no formal tertiary qualifications.
- Invest in community led pastoral care and skills matching programmes to support people who are new to the workforce or returning to the workforce after a prolonged absence.
- Read more here.
- Take a major step toward pay equity through the passing of legislation which will make it easier and faster to resolve pay equity claims.
- Focus on educating and training our young people and on ensuring our immigration settings are right to allow employers to find the right staff to help them grow.
- Continue to ensure our laws and regulations are flexible and reflect the changing nature of work.
- Replace existing regulations with more modern and fitfor-purpose requirements that target risk appropriately as part of our Working Safer reforms package.
- Work with employers to meet our 2020 target of reducing workplace fatalities and injuries by 25 per cent.
- Read more here.
- Review and amend employment laws to ensure that casualisation employment practices are fair and just with a review of short term employment contracts.
- Train New Zealanders in areas of skill shortages, instead of actively recruiting offshore; and put New Zealanders first for jobs by sensible immigration policies.
- Introduce literacy and numeracy skills package for workers.
- Require transparency when public service salaries exceed accepted public service bands.
- Establish a dollar-for-dollar debt write-off scheme so that graduates in identified areas of workforce demand may trade a year’s worth of debt for each year of paid full-time work in New Zealand in that area.
- Read more here and here.
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