Entries for March 2011

New laws that allow employers to sack any worker in their first 90 days in a job, without any reason and without the right of appeal, and limit union access to worksites come into force tomorrow. The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) and Service and Food Workers Union: Ngā Ringa Tota (SFWU) urg...

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NZNO has welcomed the expansion of the voluntary bonding scheme for nursing and other health graduates to include mental health and aged care. Minister of Health Tony Ryall this week announced that graduates wanting to join the scheme would get priority if they chose to work in either of these speci...

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The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) congratulates the Government on its response to the bold Māori Affairs Select Committee report that calls for a Smokefree New Zealand / Aotearoa by 2025. NZNO kaiwhakahaere, Kerri Nuku says the report’s recommendations are victory for all New Zealanders. ...

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More than 40 percent of nurses aged under 30 say the realities of nursing differ from their expectations, in particular the emotional challenge of nursing is more than they expected and the pay progression less. More than half of young nurses feel they are not appropriately paid for their roles and ...

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The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO), Māori nurses, emergency nurses and mental health nurses have all called on the government to get much tougher on New Zealand’s “disastrous drinking culture”. Speaking on the Alcohol Reform Bill at the Justice and Electoral Select Committee today [March 9]...

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NZNO president, Nano Tunnicliff and kaiwhakahaere, Kerri Nuku have sent a message of support to Christchurch women who have lost or are likely to lose their jobs in the aftermath of the Christchurch earthquake. “On International Women’s Day [March 8], we want to acknowledge that working women have ...

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