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4月9日新西兰统计局消息，新西兰政府残疾提供者需要资金来匹配护理助理的加薪。
残疾人支持网络首席执行官彼得雷诺兹(Peter Reynolds)说:”为医管局(DHB)工作的护士和护理助理将获得的大幅加薪，需要与政府为支持工作者和为残疾人提供者工作的护士提供资金相匹配。 如果没有这笔全额资金，已经人手不足的残疾人部门将很难为新西兰残疾人保留工作人员和支持水平”。
医管局(DHB)和新西兰护士组织之间的拟议薪酬公平交易已经发布，NZNO成员将在本月晚些时候对此进行投票。 该协议包含医管局雇用的护士和护理助理的工资等级增加20-25%，以调整这些角色相对于类似的男性主导角色的薪酬不足。 该协议不包括护士，护理助理或类似角色，例如为非政府残疾服务提供商工作的支持工作者。
彼得雷诺兹说:”很高兴看到这些医管局(DHB)角色的历史性薪酬不足得到解决，残疾支持提供者将需要采取行动来配合这些加薪，以确保整个系统的公平性。 政府需要为残疾人部门的类似增长提供全额资金才能实现这一目标。
政府对残疾支持提供者的资金已经不足以满足他们预期提供的服务 – 他们没有钱来匹配薪酬公平和解。 相反，残疾支持提供者已经收到了多年的承诺，而几乎没有其他承诺。 我们认为，重要的是你工作的价值，而不是你工作的地方。
我们的部门依赖并受到政府分配给我们的资金的限制。 残疾支助提供者只有在政府为他们提供全额资金的情况下才能增加工资。
如果残疾支持提供者没有得到资金支持，他们将无法与护士和护理助理在公共卫生部门工作的工资率竞争。 这将削弱他们雇用和留住员工的能力，这将导致对残疾人的支持减少，并继续为残疾人取得巨大成果的能力，这是政府的一个关键目标。
与卫生和残疾部门的其他部门隔离做出的医疗改革决定在该部门的其他部分造成了不公平的后果 ，这就像一个残酷的连锁反应。 残疾人部门的支持工作者对于实现这一目标至关重要。 提供商已经在努力获得足够的员工。 我们不希望看到残疾支助因工作人员离开该部门而受到损害的情况，而医管局的工资率较高。
薪酬公平是一个重要目标，NZDSN希望看到残疾人部门支持工作者也从这笔交易中受益。 但加薪是提供商在当前资金水平下无法承受的重大成本。 为了增加残疾人部门对工人的支持工资，政府需要加紧提供资金来实现这一目标” 雷诺兹先生说。
拟议的NZNO/DHB薪酬股权结算可以在这里找到:https://www.nzno.org.nz/dhbpayequity
Disability providers need funding to match care assistants’ pay boost The significant pay increases set to be awarded to nurses and care assistants working for DHBs will need to be matched with government funding for support workers and nurses working for disability providers. Without that full funding, it will be very difficult for the already understaffed disability sector to retain staff and support levels for disabled New Zealanders, says New Zealand Disability Support Network CEO Peter Reynolds.
A proposed pay equity deal between DHBs and the New Zealand Nurses’ Organisation has been released, with NZNO members to vote on it later this month. The deal contains increases of 20-25% across pay bands for DHB-employed nurses and care assistants to adjust for the underpayment of these roles relative to similar male-dominated roles. The deal does not cover nurses, care assistant or similar roles, such as Support Workers, working for non-government disability service providers.
It is good to see the historic underpayment of these DHB roles being addressed, and disability support providers will need to move to match these pay increases to ensure fairness across the system. The government needs to fully fund similar increases in the disability sector to achieve that,” says Mr Reynolds.
Government funding for disability support providers is already insufficient for the services they are expected to deliver – they don’t have the money to match the pay equity settlement. Instead, disability support providers have received years of promises and little else. We argue that it is the worth of your work, not where you work that is important.
Our sector relies on and is constrained by how much money the Government allocates us. Disability support providers can only increase wages if the Government provides them with the fully funded means to do so.
If disability support providers don’t get a funding boost, they will be unable to compete with the pay rates nurses and care assistants can get working in the public health sector. That will erode their ability to hire and retain staff, which will lead to reduced support for people with disabilities and the ability to continue to deliver great outcomes for disabled people – a key goal of the government.
The health reform decisions made in isolation from the rest of the health and disability sector create unfair consequences in other parts of the sector – it’s like a cruel ripple effect. Support workers in the disability sector are vital to achieving this. Providers are already struggling to get enough staff as it is. We do not want to see a situation where disability support is undermined by staff leaving the sector, attracted by the higher wage rates in DHBs.
Pay equity is an important goal and NZDSN wants to see disability sector support workers also benefit from this deal. But pay increases are significant costs that providers cannot afford with current funding levels. To increase disability sector support workers’ pay, the Government needs to step up with the money to make it happen”。
the proposed NZNO/DHB pay equity settlement can be found here https://www.nzno.org.nz/dhbpayequity
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