March 2021 vol 27 no 2
March 1, 2021
The board agreed to allow pharmacists and vision and hearing specialists employed by Tai Tokerau’s largest Māori health provider, Ngāti Hine Health Trust, and covered by its collective agreement (CA) with NZNO, to become members of NZNO.
Read more... Pharmacists, vision and hearing specialists to become members
March 2021 vol 27 no 2
March 1, 2021
The board approved a project brief on the development of an equity framework to guide NZNO in all its work.
Read more... Equity framework to be ‘socialised’ to staff, members
March 2021 vol 27 no 2
March 1, 2021
In his report to the board, corporate services manager David Woltman presented a budgeted deficit of $478,000 for 2021/22 and small surpluses in the following two years.
March 2021 vol 27 no 2
March 1, 2021
NZNO is facing a pre-tax deficit of $673,000 for the nine months to December 31, 2020 – $448,000 better than the budgeted pre-tax deficit of $1.121 million.
March 2021 vol 27 no 2
March 1, 2021
Workers will be able to get sick leave, bereavement and family violence leave from the first days of their employment under changes to the Holidays Act.
March 2021 vol 27 no 2
March 1, 2021
The first-ever national strike at Family Planning (FP), scheduled for February 16, was averted thanks to mediation last month and a revised collective agreement (CA).
Read more... Primary health care: New deal at Family Planning
March 2021 vol 27 no 2
March 1, 2021
Some new faces have joined NZNO’s industrial services team (IST), while some familiar faces have new roles. Acting IST manager Glenda Alexander announced a raft of appointments last month.
March 2021 vol 27 no 2
March 1, 2021
A decision on whether to raise staff carparking rates at Wellington Regional Hospital has been postponed, after surgeons and anaesthetists joined in to protest against the hikes.
March 2021 vol 27 no 2
March 1, 2021
Claims endorsement meetings for Plunket collective agreement (CA) negotiations are being held this month. Negotiations will most likely start next month.
March 2021 vol 27 no 2
March 1, 2021
Job cuts and reductions in hours of work at Timaru’s Arvida-owned Strathallan aged-care facility have gone ahead, despite staff and community opposition.
March 2021 vol 27 no 2
March 1, 2021
Placing whānau at the centre of everything nurses do and viewing the therapeutic relationship as a nurse/whānau relationship, rather than a nurse/patient relationship, were two key messages presenter Tracy Haddon delivered at the NZNO professional forum.
February 2021 vol 27 no 1
February 1, 2021
A draft equity framework to guide NZNO in all its work was shared with the board by NZNO policy analyst Māori Leanne Manson and senior policy analyst Lucia Bercinskas.
February 2021 vol 27 no 1
February 1, 2021
NZNO membership “stabilised” from mid-2020 after beginning the financial year with a decline, NZNO manager corporate services David Woltman said in his report to the board.
February 2021 vol 27 no 1
February 1, 2021
The board has appointed its members Diane McCulloch, Titihuia Pakeho and Andrew Cunningham to the NZNO constitutional review advisory group.
February 2021 vol 27 no 1
February 1, 2021
We are hoping it will be third time lucky as we plan for our 47th annual perioperative nurses college (PNC) conference in Christchurch this year.
February 2021 vol 27 no 1
February 1, 2021
COVID-19 was significantly disruptive on a number of levels for the work of the NZNO colleges and sections (C&S) in 2020.
February 2021 vol 27 no 1
February 1, 2021
Recruitment for a range of permanent positions on NZNO’s industrial services team (IST) is underway.
Read more... Recruitment to industrial services team underway
February 2021 vol 27 no 1
February 1, 2021
Hospice ratification meetings are underway and will run from February 11-26. Negotiations for a new national hospice multi-employer collective agreement (MECA) began in September last year.
February 2021 vol 27 no 1
February 1, 2021
Members working at aged residential care provider CHT Healthcare Trust are voting this month on an offer which includes a 3.5 per cent wage increase for registered and enrolled nurses, backdated to July 1, 2020, and the inclusion of miscarriage in the bereavement leave clause.
February 2021 vol 27 no 1
February 1, 2021
NZNO is to refresh its In Safe Hands branding and communication resources in time for caregivers week next month.
