District Health Boards

Update as at: March 2021

Pay Equity Claims

After a period of downtime over the Xmas and New Year period current claims are ongoing as they work through the pay equity process phases. There are three main phases: Raising the claim, Accessing the Claim and Settling the claim. 

• DHB Admin Clerical – Settling the Claim phase. Endorsement of proposed equal pay rates for role profiles and agreement to proceed with the next steps to finalise a settlement proposal for ratification. This now involves mapping of admin clerical roles across all the DHBs to the equal pay job profiles.
• DHB Mental Health and Public Health Nursing – Assessment Phase. Identification of claimant roles, discussion of comparator roles
• DHB Allied, Public Health, and Technical – Assessment Phase. Union consolidation process agreement. Development of joint workplan. Identification of claimant roles and interviews

Bargaining Updates

Admin & Clerical  - Bargaining

The 4 regional admin clerical MECAs expire at different times over the year but we will be seeking to negotiate standard national  terms and conditions consistent now a pay equity settlement is in sight.

Allied Public Health & Technical - Bargaining

Restarting bargaining  in 2021 has not been without barriers, with a number of bargaining dates being postponed due to Covid. 

Our last days of bargaining 8th and 9th March had to be moved to zoom meetings due to the uncertainty of when Aucklands covid levels would change. We are getting more and more used to needing to devise ‘Plan B’ to keep moving.

We have discussed and are progressing the important bargaining issues raised by PSA members across the APHT MECA’s that cover all 20 DHB’s.

• PSA APHT MECA Bargaining Issues 2020

Our next bargaining dates are on the 29th and 30th of March. We are hoping the employer representatives will either provide us with a formal offer or with a clear position from them that we can share with you. Between now and our next bargaining dates your bargaining team will be working on our position based on discussions to date so that we are in a good position when we next meet.  

Mental and Public Health Nursing  - Bargaining

Your bargaining team has now met with the employer representatives for a total of 6 days over the last few months, and were due to meet again on 11 and 12 February. This unfortunately had to be deferred due to Auckland returning to Level 3 lockdown.

With our February dates having to be cancelled, we have had a team Zoom and a Zoom meeting with the DHB bargaining advocates to plan next steps from here. The DHB bargaining team advocates have indicated they may be in a position to make offers on money-related matters at our next meeting. We are meeting again (with the usual Covid-19 caveats aside) on 11 and 12 March, and will be back in touch after those dates. We will also be continuing our discussions around important bargaining issues, such as workload and health and safety.