Latest Workplace Relations and Safety News

Changes to improve pay equity process
Ban On Engineered Stone Essential To Protect Workers
Brooke Van Velden Ramps Up Her War On Working People
Cutting red tape at the start of employment
Reducing Ambiguity About What Is Reasonably Practicable For Health And Safety Compliance
Health and safety governance and management change coming
Freeing the great outdoors from health and safety scope creep
Health And Safety Changes Driven By ACT Party Ideology
Going for growth: cutting health & safety red tape
Employment Relations Authority members sought
Brooke van Velden completely undermines personal grievance system
Feedback wanted on working with engineered stone
Twelve months to re-negotiate contracts before income threshold policy takes effect
New appointments bring business expertise to the Employment Relations Authority
NZCTU: Minister needs to listen to the evidence on engineered stone ban
Consultation opens on working with engineered stone
NZCTU put Brooke van Velden on notice over WorkSafe cuts
PSA members rally against further WorkSafe job cuts to keep the ‘health’ in our health and safety system
Minimum Wage Set For 2025
Six years of work wasted – Holidays Act reform now years away
Minister response to consultation on Holidays Act replacement
Pay deductions for partial strikes to be reintroduced
Safer ports – approved code of practice for loading and unloading cargo takes effect today
More flexible dismissal process for high-income employees
Coalition Government’s reforms give workers the best chance to succeed and prosper
Feedback will improve health and safety system and grow the economy
Increased certainty for contractors coming
Milestone reached for fixing the Holidays Act 2003
Aotearoa’s Moral Failure On Migrant Worker Rights
Human rights review confirms widespread migrant worker exploitation
Paid Parental Leave improvements pass first reading
An overdose of orange cones? What the review of NZ’s workplace safety rules must get right
Low participation stalling Tasmania’s economy, education the key 25 June 2024
Fate of Tasmania’s Antarctic gateway status hangs in the balance 22 June 2024
Protecting workers with industrial manslaughter laws 19 June 2024
Major health and safety consultation begins
Paid Parental Leave increase to help families
Workers’ rights must be respected in review of Holidays Act
Progress for fixing the Holidays Act 2003
Removing barriers to well-paid, safe and secure jobs 29 May 2024
Tasmania needs industrial manslaughter laws 28 April 2024
Health and safety consensus is dead, and WorkSafe cuts are burying it
Shadow Cabinet reflects Labor’s strong focus on jobs 16 April 2024
Speech to Auckland Business Chamber
Minimum wage set for cautious increase
The Government must ban engineered stone to protect workers’ health
Availability of 90-day trials extended
Milestone reached on repeal of Fair Pay Agreements legislation