The Department of Conservation (DoC) faces major restructuring, with plans to cut 130 roles as part of the government’s mandate for a 6.5 percent reduction in spending.
Under the proposed changes, 270 positions will be disestablished, although 101 of these are currently vacant, while 140 “new” roles will be created.
In a statement the department said they have been consulting with staff on the proposals for several months in an effort to minimise the impact on conservation outcomes and personnel.
The Public Service Association (PSA) criticised the cost-cutting measures as reckless, particularly given DoC’s challenges in protecting the conservation estate.
‘We should be investing more, not less, in such an important agency,’ PSA national secretary Duane Leo told state media.
‘The government talks a big game about growing the economy yet wants to shackle DoC which plays such an important role in boosting tourism, our second biggest export earner. How does this make any sense?’
Meanwhile the department told media the final number of redundancies won’t be known ‘until we have consulted our people and we have been through a management of change process.’
A breakdown of the proposed job losses by business unit was provided:
- Biodiversity, Heritage and Visitors: 24 net roles to be disestablished
- Office of the Director General: 2 roles to be disestablished
- Organisation Support: 9 net roles to be disestablished
- Policy and Regulatory Services: 22 net roles to be disestablished
- Public Affairs: 18 net roles to be disestablished
- Regional Operations (Support): 54 net roles to be disestablished in a group
- Treaty Relationships: 1 role to be disestablished
Just a though but should we reconsider the 30 billion for the Paris agreement
Most definitely!
It shouldn’t of ever been considered or putting into action.
Get this:
An amount of land equivalent to the Isle of Wight has been added to the shorelines of 13,000 islands around the world in just the last 20 years. This fascinating fact of a 369.67 square kilometre increase has recently been discovered by a group of Chinese scientists analysing both surface and satellite records. Overall, land was lost during the 1990s, but the scientists found that in the study period of three decades to 2020 there was a net increase of 157.21 km2. The study observed considerable natural variation in both erosion and accretion. Of course, the findings blow holes in the poster scare run by alarmists suggesting that rising sea levels caused by humans using hydrocarbons will condemn many islands to disappear shortly beneath rising sea levels. By means of such flimsy scare tactics, as we have seen in many other cases, desperate attempts are made to terrify global populations to accept the insanity of the Net Zero collectivisation.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/islands-climate-alarmists-said-would-soon-disappear-due-rising-sea-found-have-grown
The Public Service Association, or PSA, is a trade union with over 80,000 workers in the New Zealand PUBLIC SECTOR.
It is always nice to keep your cushy PUBLIC SECTOR job, but we all have to face the reality Jabcinda and lover Robertson have placed us in. And if I am not mistaken, the PUBLIC SECTOR backed all the way Jabby’s crime spree.
YOU guys forget that the normal producing citizen is feeding YOU, not the other way around.
And many of the proposed ‘job’ losses are seats on the gravy train so many unelected officials occupy.
Times are’a changing and YOU better get used to that.
Go make YOURSELF useful and produce something.
Same goes for the Councils and their chums, cesspits of parasitism, extortion and delusions of grandeur.
I would prefer to see DOC completely defunded, a complete waste of money. An organisation propagandising climate change, man handling native wildlife, constantly blaming different species to blame for their own failures, an organisation which will see farmers off their own land.
I can’t imagine the wasteful spending and high salary costs.
Smaller government is always better.
Always.
Every time.
DOC department of cretins.
Getting rid of the dead wood, nicely ironic.