28 Jun 2018

Health Ministry struggling with pay equity - disability groups

From Morning Report, 8:50 am on 28 June 2018

Disabilty groups fear the Ministry of Health is struggling to meet its obligations under the pay equity law. Sixty providers have had an official letter offering a 15 percent funding increase to provide better wages and more training regardless of how many senior and more expensive staff they already employ. They say that creates a perverse incentive to employ fewer qualifed workers.