Election year:
2023
Political party:
Green Party
Associated politicians:
Policy:
Industrial Relations
- The Crown can and should set best practice employment standards through its role as New Zealand’s largest employer.
- Introduce a new framework for state sector collective bargaining, promoting a more consistent and fair approach to employment protections across the public sector.
- Ensure state sector employees are meaningfully involved in decisions about restructuring that would affect them and their work.
- Adopt robust policies for workplace non-discrimination in hiring and promotion across the broader state sector.
- Ensure all workplaces are fully accessible for disabled employees.
- Promote work life balance for state sector employees, including higher staffing levels in sectors where shift work is required or where the nature of the work creates a risk of burnout..
- Ensure state funding for the community sector is sufficient to promote fair wages and safe staffing levels, acknowledging the social value of this work and a lack of other funding sources.
- Phase in five weeks annual leave, implement the Holidays Act Taskforce recommendations, ensure bereavement leave entitlements are culturally appropriate for all New Zealanders and acknowledge the particular significance of tangihanga for Māori.
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