Claims include parity in pay and a range of other conditions with district health board collegues; an increase in study days and in professional development and recognition programme allowances; and improvements to leave entitlements. Removal of individual hospice exemptions from the MECA was another significant claim, NZNO advocate Lynley Mulrine said.
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The previous MECA expired on August 31 and covered 520 members in 19 hospices.
NZNO’s negotiating team is Mulrine, Nelson-based organiser Daniel Marshall, and delegates Julie Fletcher (Harbour Hospice, Auckland), Nicki Twigge (Waipuna Hospice, Auckland), Rachel Clarke (Arohanui Hospice, Palmerston North) and Shelley Bignell, (Te Omanga Hospice, Lower Hutt).