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Department of Labour, National
The Department of Labour wants to hear your views about quality flexible work arrangements. We want to know what you think will best help employees achieve quality flexible work and meet the needs of businesses.
Quality flexible work is about people having the opportunity to make changes to the hours or times they work and where they work. It is also about how careers are organised, how transitions in and out of work are managed and how flexible work is managed in the workplace so that employees and businesses benefit.
The Department has been asked by the Transport and Industrial Relations Committee of Parliament to consult widely on the mechanisms to deliver flexible working hours. We have also been working with the business sector, unions and workplace leaders to come up with practical ways to introduce and manage flexible work in workplaces. Your views on what works, what doesn’t, the reasons why and what would help will be important to guide our future decisions.
The Department has released a discussion paper Quality Flexible Work: increasing availability and take up in New Zealand outlining the key issues and possible approaches for quality flexible work.
We invite responses on the paper until 15 December 2006.
You can download the paper and response form from the department's website www.dol.govt.nz and complete a submission on line or send by post, fax or email to:
Cath Edmondson Workplace Practices Department of Labour PO Box 3805 Wellington 6140 Fax: 04 915 4710.
If you have any questions about the consultation, or would like hard copies of the discussion paper, please contact Cath Edmondson on Tel. (04) 915 4692 or cath.edmondson@dol.govt.nz or Deborah Tucker on Tel (04) 915 4376 (Monday and Tuesday).