Fair Par should be everyone’s right…Fair days pay for a fair days work….who could reasonably ask anything less than this .. Please… Be fair , and implement this … in my 64 years , this works best for all , whoever they are, anywhere across NZ..

I’m a pensioner who still needs to work to pay bills, esp Insurance & food for me & my dog.

Fair Pay Agreements are essential to allow workers to live a decent life, be economically viable and, hence, be able to perform optimumly and effectively in their jobs. Their service to the community, and their employers depends fundamentally on their being paid fairly and adequately. Kia kaha!

The same income for the type of work…..

To the new government:

I’ve worked in Aged Care for 8 yrs as an Activities Co-Ordinator and even after completing my studies as a

Diversional Therapist am only earning $28.25 hourly, Could you live on this?? No wonder people don’t want to work in Aged Care, Equal pay and much needed pay increases are needed NOW remember how hard we worked in Lockdown don’t forget us now!!!

Rayleen Wineera

Rayleen Wineera

Rayleen Wineera

Rayleen Wineera

FPA holds the promise that we will have uninterrupted industrial “peace” and thus we win, the employers win, and the bus travelling public win.

No more strikes, or lock outs and no political strife means a lot of benefits to the fair-minded voters in New Zealand.

Sahil gandhi

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This if fu*#ed

There is a need for a safety net for the average worker in NZ, not everybody is covered by collective agreements or have the skills to negotiate their own terms of employment and the bull shite from 1991/92 lives on in too many peoples mind set. Working people, lower paid and many on base rates get screwed and do not understand employment law so the retention of a safety net is essential. I support the work the CTU is doing on fair pay agreements.

For me it means having adequate staff to do the job and getting paid a decent wage for the responsibilities

Even handed Employer / Employee relations and Transparency

Its nice to be paid what we are worth and can afford to buy groceries and petrol to get to work. I’m not a lawyer or a doctor or nurse I get high pay. I work in the supermarket industry and before fair pay came along I couldn’t afford a lot of food and I couldn’t afford a lot on petrol. But now I can but I still keep to a budget on food and petrol. I hope the new government will listen and keep it as their are people and families who will struggle if they take it away.

Keep doing the good work we r doing more much better together and I m with u

Fair pay agreements are essential to ECE. In ECE we have too many people working on the minimal wage. They cannot cope with the expensive cost of living with out having a partner earning well. We have cooks who are doing 5 feeds a day for 150 tamariki. We have unqualified kaiako who have to do the same work as qualified teachers because we simply have such a shortage of kaiako. We have administration on low wages. Woman in ECE out number men 98% to 2%. Child care and education for under 5 is not treated as an essential cost to Government like with older tamariki. Government is happy to take lots of taxes from the parents working but not fund the care and education of their tamariki.

ECE kaiako are not treated with fair and reasonable working conditions. 8 hour days child contact means all the paper work expectations are having to be done in a two hour period. It does not work. Expectations of looking after 5 babies at once is ridiculous. Staff are leaving and centres can’t cope. Centres cannot take on the number of tamariki they used to. Waiting list grow longer parents can’t go back to work. Better regulations are needed to see our youngest get the care they need. Children should have bedrooms. There should be plenty of space to play and spread out the noise level. Staff funding should be based on cost like primary and secondary as equal funding for enrolled hourly rates does not cover the uneven expenses of a lot of experiences staff.

An American scholar wrote a book 20 or so years ago entitled Fairness and Freedom. It was a comparative study of New Zealand and the USA. The author, a historian from Pennsylvania State University, argued that fairness was the essence of New Zealand culture. I think Fair Pay Agreements carry on this essential quality of our bicultural heritage and national culture. Long may it continue!

Fair pay agreements to me means going back to the old maxim of a decent day’s pay for an honest day’s work. This doesn’t mean handouts of gratuities. Simply paying people what they are worth so that they can enjoy a decent standard of living.

FPA means to me, supporting family, still going without things- though being happy to be able to have a roof over my head and bills paid in a town which is mainly tourism and cost of living/ housing rent mortgage are higher than a average town.

It is a nice way to feel valued and appreciated as a person and not a lower citizen.