Workplace Relations and Safety – 2020
Titles of documents the Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety received from MBIE in 2020.
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The following lists are as accurate as possible at the time of publishing and may be updated or added to. This list includes papers received from the Minister’s reporting agency where the Minister is the main recipient. Papers received from other agencies, or where a paper has been referred to the Minister by another Minister, are not included in this list.
Titles of Appointment and Honours Committee (APH) briefings and briefings that accompany responses to Official Information Act requests to the Minister are not included in this list.
Some information has been withheld for the following reasons:
- National security or defence
- Commercial information
- Confidentiality
- Likely otherwise to damage the public interest
- Confidential advice to Government
- Free and frank expression of opinion
- Legal professional privilege
- Negotiations
December 2020
| Tracking number | Title | Date received by Minister | Author |
| 2021-1478 | Meeting with SPADA | 01 December | MBIE |
| 2021-1239 | Worksafe’s Annual Report for the year ended 30 June | 02 December | MBIE |
| 2021-1627 | Meeting with Workers Health and Safety Training Trust | 02 December | MBIE |
| 2021-1427 | Fair Pay Agreeements - should there be a time limit on bargaining | 02 December | MBIE |
| 2021-1163 | Employment Relations Authority – Recommendations of selection panel for members | 03 December | MBIE |
| 2021-1638 | Cabinet paper: Minimum wage review | 03 December | MBIE |
| 2021-1659 | Wage subsidy scheme interface with annual leave | 04 December | MBIE |
| 2021-1675 | Inclusion of changes to the COVID-19 Leave Support Scheme in the Cabinet paper: Economic response to future resurgences of COVID-19 | 04 December | MBIE |
| 2021-1541 | Contractors and the FPA system | 04 December | MBIE |
| 2021-1654 | Fair Pay Agreements: mandatory to agree and mandatory to discuss terms and conditions | 04 December | MBIE |
| 2021-1592 | Advice on legislative structure of Fair Pay Agreements | 07 December | MBIE |
| 2021-1576 | Tango i Te Kaupae Muri Modern Slavery Conference | 07 December | MBIE |
| 2021-1736 | Information on MPs’ pay | 07 December | MBIE |
| 2021-1722 | Minimum Wage Review - Cabinet Business Committee talking points | 08 December | MBIE |
| 2021-1612 | The role of ethnic and migrant communities in reducing migrant exploitation | 09 December | MBIE |
| 2021-1424 | Fair Pay Agreements: Implications of a change in initiation | 09 December | MBIE |
| 2021-1246 | Timing for the Review of Major Hazard Facilities Fees and Levy | 10 December | MBIE |
| 2021-1388 | WorkSafe New Zealand’s Quarter One Performance/21 | 10 December | MBIE |
| 2021-1743 | Public release of report - targeted review of the adventure activities regulatory scheme | 10 December | MBIE |
| 2021-1781 | Visit to CTU Manawatu | 10 December | MBIE |
| 2021-1511 | Meeting with Unite Union | 11 December | MBIE |
| 2021-1739 | Draft Cabinet paper - Establishing a Matariki Advisory Group | 11 December | MBIE |
| 2021-1812 | Review of WorkSafe Performance of Regulatory Functions in relation to Whakaari/White Island | 11 December | MBIE |
| 2021-1760 | Proactive release of documents supporting MBIE’s targeted review of the adventure activities regulatory regime | 14 December | MBIE |
| 2021-1742 | Release of the targeted review of the adventure activities regulatory scheme | 15 December | MBIE |
| 2021-1842 | Attendance at the Employment, Education and Training Ministerial Group Meeting – 16 December | 15 December | MBIE |
| 2021-1615 | Giving effect to FPAs | 16 December | MBIE |
| 2021-1680 | Plant and structures regulatory reform: draft cabinet paper and RIA | 16 December | MBIE |
| 2021-1735 | International Labour Organisation – Issues and Obligations | 16 December | MBIE |
| 2021-1104 | Review of the employment dispute resolution system | 16 December | MBIE |
| 2021-1874 | Status of ‘Better Protections for Contractors’ policy work | 16 December | MBIE |
| 2021-1900 | Proactive release of Cabinet papers on increasing the minimum sick leave entitlement | 23 December | MBIE |
November 2020
| Tracking number | Title | Date received by the Minister | Author |
| N/A | Briefing for the Incoming Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety | 03 November | MBIE |
| 2021-1217 | Increasing the minimum sick leave entitlement: timing and policy decisions | 06 November | MBIE |
| 1150 20-21 | Labour Market Statistics Snapshot - September Quarter | 09 November | MBIE |
| 2021-1253 | Issues and Opportunities in Work Health and Safety | 10 November | MBIE |
| 2021-1141 | Information on amending the Employment Relations Act to give security officers additional employment protections | 10 November | MBIE |
| 2021-1011 | Background information on Screen Industry Workers Bill | 11 November | MBIE |
| 2021-1137 | Preventing Worker Exploitation and Modern Slavery | 11 November | MBIE |
| 2021-0627 | Background information and next steps on Fair Pay Agreements | 12 November | MBIE |
| 2021-1293 | Cabinet paper: Increasing the minimum sick leave entitlement | 12 November | MBIE |
| 2021-1302 | Public Service Association (PSA) Biennial Congress | 13 November | MBIE |
| N/A | Memo - COVID-19 Leave Support Scheme | 13 November | MBIE |
| 2021-1263 | Setting the minimum wage rates for 2021 | 18 November | MBIE |
| 2021-1277 | APEC 21 Human Resources Development Working Group | 19 November | MBIE |
| 2021-1276 | Plan of Action against Forced Labour, People Trafficking and Slavery | 19 November | MBIE |
| 2021-1315 | Proposed upcoming amendments to parental leave regulations | 20 November | MBIE |
| 2021-1357 | Meeting with BusinessNZ | 20 November | MBIE |
| 2021-1065 | Proposed amendments to the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 and the Mines Rescue Act 2013 through the Regulatory Systems Amendment Bill (No. 4) | 23 November | MBIE |
| 2021-1245 | Amending the Health and Safety at Work Act to meet your manifesto commitments | 23 November | MBIE |
| 2021-1430 | Speech at Tramways Union AGM | 23 November | MBIE |
| 2021-1016 | Improving the process for responding to complaints about the Chief of the Employment Relations Authority | 24 November | MBIE |
| 2021-1403 | Proactive release of Briefing for the Incoming Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety | 25 November | MBIE |
| 2021-0985 | Briefing for the Incoming Minister Responsible for MBIE | 25 November | MBIE |
| 2021-1516 | Meeting with Greg Harford, Chief Executive of Retail NZ | 25 November | MBIE |
| 2021-1155 | Targeted review of the adventure activities regulatory regime | 26 November | MBIE |
| 2021-1372 | Review of the COVID-19 Leave Support Scheme | 26 November | MBIE/MSD |
| 2021-1505 | Correspondence from NZCTU raising concerns with COVID-19 employment law guidance, and update on related Employment Court proceedings | 26 November | MBIE |
| 2021-1451 | Cabinet paper: Minimum wage review | 26 November | MBIE |
| 2021-1425 | Cabinet paper: Approval to introduce the Holidays (Increasing Sick Leave) Amendment Bill | 26 November | MBIE |
| 2021-1474 | Meeting With Tourism Industry Aotearoa | 26 November | MBIE |
| 2021-1540 | Meeting with NZ Post Primary Teachers' Association | 30 November | MBIE |
| 2021-1363 | Talking points for CEO Forum Breakfast | 30 November | MBIE |
| 2021-1539 | New Zealand Council of Trade Unions Meeting | 30 November | MBIE |
| 2021-1488 | Employment relations education – November course approval round | 30 November | MBIE |