Nursing Pay Equity

Welcome to the NZNO Nursing Pay Equity page. 

In a ballot which closed on 31 July 2023, NZNO/PSA members who work for Te Whatu Ora in nursing/health roles (alongside some people who are not union members) voted to accept the proposed Nursing Pay Equity settlement agreement, which arose from mediation ordered by the Employment Relations Authority.

This is a major milestone in the history of nursing in Aotearoa New Zealand and it is a long overdue step towards addressing the significant gender-based inequality nurses, midwives, health care assistants and kaimahi hauora face in their work every day.

This means the new Pay Equity rates became the effective rates in the NZNO/Te Whatu Ora collective agreement 2022, which was also ratified by members on 7 August 2023.

Now that the proposed Pay Equity settlement has been accepted, the parties have also agreed that all Pay Equity litigation before the Employment Relations Authority (fixing the rates, senior nurse rates, ongoing Pay Equity assurance mechanism) and in the Employment Court (Pay Equity back pay) will cease.

The next step for NZNO will be addressing the need for Pay Parity across all nursing sectors using these rates as a benchmark. Pay Parity is a matter of wage justice and essential to Maranga Mai!. It will mean nurses can work where they believe they can best contribute, rather than where they can earn enough to pay the bills. It will also help end the discriminatory wages and conditions faced by Māori and iwi, Pasifika, rural and other disadvantaged health service providers.

 

Are you a former Te Whatu Ora employee?  Fill in the form at the following link and send to the relevant email address included in the form: Final Nursing Pay Equity Payment Application Form for Previous Employees who terminated from 1st January 2020

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