This request asks for information relating to Ministry’s funding or collaboration to support union members and their activities.
Type
Departmental
This request asks for information relating to Ministry’s funding or collaboration to support union members and their activities.
Type
Departmental
Details of the request
We request the following information
- A table/list of your organisation’s pay bands with the Step Range (Band), Minimum and Maximum salaries (See attached for an example).
- A table/list of each staff member (by job title) who is permitted to spend salaried time for the purpose of union organisation, advocacy or other union activity, whether on a full time or part-time basis. Please include the number of paid hours per month permitted for such activity, the job title and the salary band (or step range band, e.g., B, D, E, F etc) for each role.
- Please do not include information where the only involvement is regular staff who are union members being entitled to attend occasional union meetings.
- Please indicate how much money was paid to any unions by your organisation in 2022, 2023, 2024 so far, and any planned payments for the remainder of 2024. (Do not include payroll deductions of Union membership dues).
- For each payment, please outline the recipient, value and purpose of the payment.
- Please indicate whether any Union or their staff, or any MBIE staff member employed for the purpose of union organisation or administration is permitted to use any office space owned/leased by your organisation, if so how often are they permitted to use it (ie is it on an ad hoc basis, part time (how many hours per week/month), or full time.
- What is the area of the office space that Unions are permitted to use.
- What rent (if any) is charged for use of the office space?
Released documents
- Example MBIE Union Staff [430 KB]
- OIAD-1173 Appendix 1 [328 KB]