INDUSTRY
NZSA CEO Update In this update, NZSA CEO Gary Morrison talks MSD/NZSA Skills for Industry, Government Procurement Rules, Fair Pay Agreements, new qualification for monitoring/communications centre operators, and electrician licensing requirements.
MSD / NZSA Skills for Industry Contract Confirmation In October 2018, MSD and NZSA entered into a nine-month Pilot Contract with the NZSA providing work broker services to its members and contracted to place 90 candidates into full-time employment (being 30 plus hours weekly) by the 30th June 2019. The Pilot Contract has exceeded all expectations with 96 candidates successfully placed into guarding, patrol, monitoring officer, junior technician and administrative positions, and with the vast majority still being in employment. We are pleased to announce that based on the success of the pilot, MSD have awarded NZSA a new nationwide term contract for work broker services based on 150 candidate placements annually.
Gary Morrison, New Zealand Security Association CEO
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The new contract commenced 01 July 2019 and has enabled us to employ our Manager Work Broker Services, Andrea Charlton, on permanent contract and recruit Napat Pawapootanon Na Mahasarakham (Napat) in a Work Broker Support role. The additional resource will provide us greater capability in identifying MSD candidates and ensure we can devote the required time to candidate placements outside of the Auckland region. The NZSA are also working with MSD on introducing specialised programmes such as Te Heke Mai which provides personalised wraparound support for workers and their new employers via a phone-based app and a team of coaches. We currently have in excess of 20 members registered and participating in the Skills for Industry programme but if you would like to find out more, or to utilise the programme, contact Andrea on andrea@security.org.nz or on 0274 502 020. Government Procurement Rules 2019 Security Industry The Government has announced new Procurement Rules that come into effect on 01 October 2019. The Rules introduce four government priority outcomes: • Increase New Zealand businesses’ access to government procurement, • Increase the size and skill level of the domestic construction sector, • Improve conditions for workers and future-proof the ability of New Zealand business to trade; and • Support the transition to a net zero emissions economy and assist the
government to meet its goal of a significant reduction in waste by 2020. The Rules introduce Specific Contracts (or Designated Contracts) to be targeted initially to deliver these priority outcomes: • Construction Contracts • Cleaning Services • Security Services • Forestry Contracts The targeting of both the cleaning and security sectors relates to poor employment conditions, whereas the forestry sector is due to health and safety concerns. The NZSA has been working with MBIE (Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment) as to how the changes will impact the security industry ,and whilst decisions have yet to be finalised, it would appear that industry representative bodies (such as the NZSA) will be a key component in assessing the suitability of providers who can tender for and provide services to government departments and agencies. It is our expectation that ‘Approved Supplier’ lists will be developed and that accreditation to the list for security providers will require not only NZSA membership but also an auditing process similar to the existing audits against the NZSA Codes of Practice (Accredited Member status), albeit with the inclusion of additional compliance testing around employment practices. The Government sector is the largest single user of contracted security services, and we will keep you posted on further developments in this area.
August / September 2019
