Resources
Here are some useful Workplace Wellbeing resources:
Interview with Glyn Hawker
Listen to a recent Collaborative Voices interview with Glyn Hawker, of UNISON - Scotland's organiser of Bargaining and Equal Pay. A community development worker by trade, Glyn was in New Zealand as a guest of the Workplace Wellbeing project, to discuss research and work being done in Scotland on sector workforce issues - such as the impact of contracting on sector workforces in the UK, collaborative work being done in the Scottish community and voluntary sector to progress employment issues.
ManaMahi Employment Relations Resource
We have compiled ManaMahi a series of guides and resources on employment relations issues for tangata whenua, community and voluntary sector organisations.
ManaMahi contains 17 best practice guides and 6 resource booklets relating to a wide range of employment relations issues.
Topics covered include:
- Good employment practice in our sector
- Guide to employment law
- Employment Relations Act
- Employment agreements
- Human Rights Act
- Treaty of Waitangi
- Minimum employment rights
- Pay and employment equity
- Work-life balance
- Training and supervision
- Health and safety
- Performance management
- Managing employment relationship problems
- Mediation
- Unions
- Employment practices liability insurance
- A sample employee handbook, and many other useful examples and checklists
Produced by the Workplace Wellbeing Project, ManaMahi was launched at a series of seminars on "Valuing the Work of Our Sector" in centres around Aotearoa New Zealand in late November/early December.
You can order your ManaMahi pack at a price of $25 (including GST and postage). Contact us on
04 472 3364 or email manamahi.orders@gmail.com.
Check out the following sample guides from Mana Mahi:
Guide 1: Good Employment Practice in Our Sector
Guide 3: The Employment Relations Act 2000
Guide 8: Pay and Employment Equity
ManaMahi Newsletters
Back issues from 2008.
Panui 1, February 2008 (PDF 290KB)
Panui 2, April-May 2008 (PDF 726KB)
Panui 3, Winter 2008 (PDF 1.13MB)
Panui 4, Spring 2008 (PDF 424 KB)
Research and reference documents
False Economy (PDF 1.5MB) (May 2007). A research report from UNISON, one of Britain's major public sector unions, on the impact of contracting on British sector organisations and their workforce.
Community Support Workers (PDF 148 KB) A research report commissioned by the Public Service Association which shows that Community Support Workers working in intellectual disability services do the same sized jobs as Corrections Officers and Health/Therapy Assistants yet earn up to 52% less.
Workshop resource list
Resource list (PDF 112 KB) provided at the workshops
| Attachment | Size |
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 Workplace-Wellbeing-Spring08.pdf | 424 KB |
