The parties agree that during the term of this agreement, they will work together to identify and share all base and above base components of remuneration and jointly identify and assess differences in pay between districts and specialties, including in relation to:
- after hours on call remuneration.
- recruitment and retention allowances.
- special contributions benefits.
- leadership remuneration and the time allocated for leadership duties.
- any other relevant variations.
Difference between district and specialties
The parties will investigate and jointly develop ways to recruit and retain SMOs generally within the public health system, within specific specialties, and in rural or hard to staff locations.
Gender Pay Audit
The parties will work together to agree a process for undertaking required gender pay audits and remedying any anomalies identified in these audits.
Workforce
- The parties are committed to a fully staffed senior medical and dental workforce.
- The parties will work together on strategies and actions to identify and remedy workforce shortfalls, including sharing intelligence and information, and establishing forums for this work.
The parties will work together to standardise reporting formats relevant to the above.
Shift Work Agreement
During the term of the agreement the parties will work towards:
- Identifying those services where shift arrangements are in place.
- Identifying the extent to which those arrangements have been formalised in writing
- Formalising in writing shift arrangements where these are not adequately set out in a formal shift agreement per clause 19.1.
A shift work agreement will address the following:
- Types of shifts and their start and finish times.
- The frequency and distribution of shift required of SMOs.
- Recovery time arrangements.
- Shift allowance payable.
- On call arrangements (where applicable).
- Break times.
- Arrangements for shift over-runs.
- Minimum break between shifts.
- Minimum time rosters must be published in advance.
Engagement
The parties agree that that they will meet regularly (through a series of scheduled meetings not less than every eight weeks), at a national level, in order to:
- share information, workforce intelligence, and stakeholder feedback,
- share analysis of information held,
- arrange for additional information where this will assist, and
- have an agreed approach to how data is accessed and maintained, and
- generally oversee the obligations contained in these agreed terms of settlement.
To support this agreement, Health NZ will provide the ASMS with service level information including salary, allowances, additional payments, FTE status, service information, and other remuneration-related data.
ASMS acknowledges that any information provided under this clause will be used solely for the purposes specified and will be managed in accordance with applicable privacy and data protection obligations.
For the avoidance of doubt, this clause constitutes the members’ authorisation for the Health NZ to disclose such information to ASMS for the stated purposes. No further individual consent is required.
This work will not limit service, district or regional based discussions or initiatives.
Whenever a party proposes to review or change rates of pay, the parties will notify each other of the proposal, and consult and engage on the proposed changes, informed by the information about rates of pay paid nationally, regionally or in different districts, and guided by the need for fair, equitable, transparent and effective remuneration.