The maintenance of high ethical values is critical to the maintenance and enhancement of public trust and confidence in government and government services.
The PSA has established an ethics network to develop and promote a members’ perspective on issues of public sector ethics. Ethics are at the heart of public sector professionalism and to be vigilantly safeguarded.
24 May 2017
The PSA welcomes the State Services Commission’s decision to hold an inquiry into treatment of whistleblowers at the Ministry of Transport.
22 May 2017
The Public Service Association Te Pūkenga Here Tikanga Mahi supports calls for an independent inquiry into how the Ministry of Transport handled a fraudulent employee.
12 Apr 2017
The PSA welcomes the independent review of the Ministry of Social Development’s individual client level data IT system, announced today by Minister Anne Tolley.
31 Jan 2017
Public servants are doing a great job in applying the Official Information Act – but more change is needed to ensure a fully open and transparent public service, the PSA says.
25 Jan 2017
New Zealanders should be proud of their public service, with Transparency International’s 2016 Corruption Perception Index finding that our public service is the least corrupt in the world (equal with Denmark).
08 Dec 2016
The Public Service Association Te Pūkenga Here Tikanga Mahi welcomes the apology by the State Services Commissioner Peter Hughes to Derek Leask and Nigel Fyfe.
