据7月30日卫生部消息，卫生部长安德鲁·利特尔回应护士组织拒绝最新的薪酬提议。 “昨晚有人告诉我，新西兰护士组织成员塔普坦加·塔普希·凯蒂亚基·奥奥塔罗亚的投票结果拒绝了解决其集体协议的最新建议。卫生部长说:”让我说清楚，这个建议是他们向政府提出的。护士组织拒绝了他们自己的建议。今早，我想证实这项建议的细节，并重申政府承诺改善护士的条件。 最重要的是，我想说：”我听到护士们对他们的工作生活的看法。他们告诉我，在人手不足的轮班工作、加班和不断处理大量病人（特别是在急诊室）的结合，使他们的工作比以往更加紧张。 除此之外，三年前护士与区卫生局（DHB）之间关于安全人员配备和薪酬公平的承诺尚未得到充分履行。政府承认这些情况所造成的痛苦和绝望，我们致力解决它。最新的薪酬提议，仅明年就将额外13，000纽币放在集体协议涵盖的每位全职员工的口袋里，而当薪酬权益索赔解决后，将有更多的收入。报价的薪酬部分由两部分组成。护士们投票通过的建议的第一部分是将基本工资标准每年提高1800纽币，外加1200纽币的一次性付款。这些数额符合目前的公共部门准则。第二部分是提前解决工资权益索赔、每年加薪4000纽币和一次性支付6000纽币。加起来就是每年加薪5800纽币，一次性支付7200纽币——总共在明年增加13，000纽币。一次性付款将在批准后尽快支付。正如我所说，刚才表决的提案最重要的部分是支付股权结算的预付款。现实情况是，支付股权要求是重中之重。
近几个月来，我一直在努力推动政府机器获得薪酬股权报价。评估护士的工作和找到类似的工作来衡量他们的过程是复杂的。这比卫生局或护士组织三年前开始工作时预期的要长。到目前为止，护士组织和其他工会一直在每一步都参与其中。这个关于薪酬股本的报价每年将价值数亿纽币，我们必须把它处理好。我可以告诉你，一些政府部门和机构的官员完全致力于完成技术工作，以便内阁能够在几周内确认开始谈判的任务。没有什么——我需要让这一切都变得清晰——我没有办法加快这个过程。护士们拒绝的4.08亿纽币的薪酬方案现在将对其银行账户产生真正的影响，而且根据谈判，我们应该在今年晚些时候或明年初提供真正的薪酬公平。护士组织承认最新的薪酬提议是有希望的，并说会员们现在主要关心的是安全的人员配置水平。三年前，政府和DHB承诺通过CCDM（护理能力需求管理）达到安全的人员配置水平。所有多动症的实施工作原定将于今年6月30日前完成。但这并没有实施，我承认这一点。护士组织在提议中描述有关安全人员配置的条款模糊不清。这是令人惊讶的，因为它是由他们自己的谈判团队提出的″。 卫生部长说:”安全人员配置条款包括：- 部长调查2008年达成的安全人员配置协议为何在20个区卫生委员会中只有10个得到全面执行。- 500万纽币，以确保CCDM在其他10个DHB推出。正如我刚才所说，我们已经资助了额外的3000个护士职位，需要确保每个DHB的CCDM已完全到位。- 第三，卫生部和护士组织联合开展征聘运动，以填补全国1450个护士空缺。- 承诺确保可变响应管理被视为 CCDM 的一部分。这意味着，当出现意外的工作量压力时，有额外的护士轮班值班，以便立即部署。护士组织对雇主未能满足人员配置要求的责任表示关切。我对此有三点：- 首先，关于CCDM的承诺已经是可执行的承诺，因此有一个问责机制。护士组织迄今尚未就这些承诺采取任何执行或合规行动;- 第二，护士组织就此提出的最初建议，可有权将每宗人员短缺的班次提交就业关系局或就业法庭。这个过程每次需要几个月的时间：它不会解决那个班次的问题;这将是不切实际的：- 第三，护士组织同意一种替代方案，即以实际方法获得及时和有意义的问责制。护士组织说，计划于8月19日和9月9日和10日举行的罢工现在将继续进行，除非提出可接受的提议。这些罢工将对公共卫生服务以及需要这些罢工的人造成极大的破坏。卫生系统已经面临全球大流行和冬季流感季节的压力。政府认为，解决集体协议的建议解决了护士组织在谈判中提出的所有问题，而且是现实和实际的，特别是当你认为我们离提出价值数亿美元的薪酬股权要约只有几个星期的时间时。对护士， 我说我仍然致力于看到你得到你应得的报酬， 并有安全的条件工作 – 包括适当的卫生系统人员配置。然而，现在的重点必须是解决薪酬权益要求，而这正是政府现在所关注的”。
Health Minister Andrew Little responds to the Nurses’ Organisation’s rejection of the latest pay offer
I was advised last night that the result of the ballot of Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa New Zealand Nurses Organisation members have rejected the latest proposal to settle their collective agreement.
Let me be clear: the proposal was one they put to the Government. The Nurses Organisation rejected their own proposal.
This morning I want to confirm the details of the proposal and reaffirm the Government’s commitments to nurses – and to all New Zealanders who are dependent on their care – to improve conditions for nurses.
Above all else I want to say this: I have heard what nurses say about their working lives.
They have told me how the combination of working on short-staffed shifts, extra hours and constantly having to deal with the high numbers of patients (especially in emergency departments) has made their job more stressful than ever.
On top of this, commitments on safe staffing and pay equity made between nurses and District Health Boards (DHBs) three years ago have yet to be fully honoured.
The Government acknowledges the distress and despair these circumstances are causing, and we are committed to fixing it.
The latest pay offer puts an extra $13,000 over the next year alone in the pockets of every full-time employee covered by the collective agreement – with more to come when the pay-equity claim is settled.
The pay component of the offer is in two parts.
The first part of the proposal nurses voted on was to lift base pay-rates by $1800 a year – plus a lump-sum payment of $1200. These amounts are within the current public sector guidelines.
The second part was advance on the settlement of the pay-equity claim, a $4000-a-year pay rise and a lump-sum payment of $6000.
Together, that adds up to a $5800-a-year pay rise and a lump-sum payment of $7200 – altogether, $13,000 over the next year.
The lump sums would have been paid as soon as practicable following ratification.
As I said, the most significant component of the proposal just voted on was the advance on the pay equity settlement. The reality is progressing the pay equity claim is the top priority.
In recent months, I have been driving the government machine hard to get a pay-equity offer on the table.
The process of evaluating nurses’ jobs and finding comparable jobs to benchmark them to is complicated. It has taken longer than either the DHBs or the Nurses Organisation expected when they started the job three years ago.
The Nurses Organisation, along with other unions, has been engaged at every step of the way so far.
This offer on pay equity will be worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year and we must get it right.
I can tell you that officials from a number of government departments and agencies are fully committed to completing the technical work so that Cabinet can confirm a mandate in a few weeks for negotiations to begin.
There is nothing – and I need to make this crystal clear – nothing I can do to speed up the process even more.
The $408 million pay proposal that nurses rejected would have make a real difference to their bank accounts now, and – subject to negotiations – we should deliver true pay equity later this year or by early next year.
The Nurses Organisation acknowledges the latest pay offer is “promising” and says members are now mainly concerned about safe staffing levels.
The Government and DHBs committed to safe staffing levels through CCDM (Care Capacity Demand Management) three years ago. Implementation was due for completion across all DHBs by 30 June this year. This has not happened, and I acknowledge that.
The Nurses Organisation has described the clause in the offer relating to safe staffing “vague”. This is surprising, given it was developed by their own negotiating team.
The safe-staffing clause includes:
– A Ministerial investigation into why the safe-staffing agreement reached in 2008 has been fully implemented at only 10 of the 20 district health boards.
– $5 million to make sure CCDM is rolled out at the other 10 DHBs. As I said earlier, we have already funded an extra 3000 nurse positions, and need to make sure CCDM is fully in place in every DHB.
– Thirdly, a joint recruitment campaign between the Ministry of Health and the Nurses Organisation to fill the 1450 nurse vacancies across the country.
– A commitment to ensuring Variable Response Management is considered as part of CCDM. That meanshaving additional nurses on shift available for immediate deployment when unforeseen workload pressures arise.
The Nurses Organisation has expressed concern about accountability where the employer falls short in meeting staffing requirements. I make three points about this:
– Firstly, the commitments on CCDM are already enforceable commitments, and therefore there is an accountability mechanism for it. The Nurses Organisation has so far taken no enforcement or compliance action in relation to these commitments;
– Secondly, the original proposal from the Nurses Organisation on this point would have entitled them to refer every incidence of a short-staffed shift to the Employment Relations Authority or the Employment Court. That is a process that would take months each time; it wouldn’t fix the problem on that shift; and it would be impractical;
– Thirdly, the Nurses Organisation agreed to an alternative which was to work on a practical way of obtaining accountability that was timely and meaningful.
The Nurses Organisation says strikes planned for the 19th of August and the 9th and 10th of September will now go ahead unless an “acceptable” offer is made.
These strikes would be hugely disruptive to public health services, and to the people who need them.
The health system is already under pressure from a global pandemic and the winter ‘flu season.
The Government believes the proposal to settle the collective agreement addresses all the issues Nurses Organisation has raised in negotiations and was realistic and practical – especially when you consider we are just weeks away from making an offer on pay equity worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
To nurses I say I remain committed to seeing you are paid what you deserve and have safe conditions to work in – including properly staffing the health system.
The focus now, however, must be on settling the pay-equity claim, and that is where the Government’s attention will now be.
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