Your E tū/NZNO delegate bargaining team has reached a settlement offer.

Unfortunately, for you to get the pay rise before Christmas the voting needs to be completed by 7pm Friday 7 Dec 2024, this is too short for us to get out and run face to face meetings for your site.

Below is the Terms of Settlement, this is the offer you are voting on. Once you have read the offer please click on the button to vote.

If you have any questions, please call our organisers on 0800 186 466.

Terms of Settlement for CHT and NZNO/E tū CEA Negotiations 2024

1) HCA, EN and RN Pay Rates:

Update Appendix A – Wages and Allowances as below:

1. Wage rates for Registered and Enrolled Nurses covered by this agreement to be increased from 1st July 2024, as outlined in the table below.

Wage rates for HCA, Activities Coordinators and Diversional Therapists are set in reference to the Support Workers (Pay Equity) Settlements Amendment Bill, with a 3% increase from 1 July 2023 and a further 3.2% increase from 1^st July 2024, summarised in the table below.

2) HCA/AC Weekend Allowance:

Update Appendix A – Wages and Allowances as below:

3) Overtime

Remove clause f).

Add new to Clause 6 Hours of Work:

1. As a general principle, where practicable, and based on the required skill for the shift, when additional ad-hoc shifts are available, these will be equitably offered to current Employees in the first instance.

4) Sector Advocacy Leave (New Clause)

The employer shall grant reasonable paid time off to union delegates to organise and lobby for agreed industry funding initiatives:

• The use of this time must be subject to at least 14 days’ notice by the union to the relevant Manager.
• The Manager and the union will take in to account the operational requirements of the care home before approving or requesting employee release.
• The request to utilise this “sector advocacy leave” must be accompanied by a written request detailing how much time will be spent and the anticipated outcome of the lobbying. 
• Approval for such leave shall be at the discretion of the employer and will not be unreasonably withheld
• No more than two union members per worksite may use this leave at any one time.

5) Medication Competency Allowance

Appendix A – Clause (e) to apply to all care homes (i.e. to include the care homes acquired on 1 February 2024) prospectively from the date of signing the ratified CEA.

6) Duty Leader Allowance:

New clause to Appendix A – Wages and Allowances:

For the care homes CHT owned prior to 1 February 2024 the Duty Leader Allowance will apply prospectively from the date of signing the ratified CEA.

(f) A Duty Leader Allowance of $2 per hour is payable for the appointed Registered Nurse rostered as Duty Leader, by the Manager, when there is no Unit Coordinator, Clinical Coordinator or Care Home Manager on site for eligible shifts.

Eligible shifts are morning and afternoon shifts on the weekend or public holidays only. 

7) Care Plans

In respect of the Unions’ claim for rostered time off the floor for RNs/ENs to complete Care Plans, CHT agrees to review the situation once the InterRAI upgrade has been in place for 6 months. 

8) Orientation/induction

CHT offers a full induction including a mandatory training programme for all new starters, as well as site-specific induction for those transferring from one CHT site to another. Employees are expected to be fully engaged in the induction process including completing mandatory training on time. If you feel that you, or another permanent/casual employee you work with, need additional support (either if you feel additional training is required or if additional support/time is needed to access and complete training), please let your care home manager know.

9) Term

One-year term agreed: 1 July 2024 – 30 June 2025

If you have any questions, please call our organisers on 0800 186 466.

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