Health New Zealand short-staffing impact statement

Background

In November last year, NZNO Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa filed a lawsuit against Health New Zealand arguing that the provision of safe staffing and a safe and healthy workplace is a right for all employees under our collective agreement and that Health New Zealand has breached the agreement by not providing a sufficient number of experienced staff in our hospitals.

We are now asking members around the motu that are also experiencing chronic short staffing to get involved in raising additional legal actions for each hospital.

This will contribute to our ongoing collective bargaining campaign to secure enforceable, culturally appropriate nurse-to-patient ratios by enforcing our right to safe staffing under our collective agreement. To achieve this, we need your help.

 

How to complete this form

Please allow at least 20 minutes to write your impact statement.

If you are not able to complete it in one go, you can save it and come back later. Here's how.

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