The Policy Place Blog
With Waitangi Day coming up, improving on our Treaty-based policies is the challenge. The historical travesty of Treaty breaches by the Crown, racism and the intergenerational impacts are widely acknowledged in Aotearoa. Remediation requires strong policies to support Kaupapa Māori initiatives and if you’re a mainstream agency, policies to guide your agency’s commitment to equitable…
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Have you been asked about a legislative compliance policy? If you’re an online policy member with the Policy Place, you can relax. We’ve got you covered. All our policies are based on the law and we review them by reference to the law and regulations. If and when legislation changes, we review and update any…
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At the Policy Place, we’ve just finished reviewing and updating the Fraud and Corruption policy as part of our cyclical review of our online Financial and Property Management policy pages. Sometimes, people think they don’t need a Fraud and Corruption policy. But they are mistaken. Yes, we want to think the best of the people…
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The NZ Employment Court’s decision (Uber case) issued 25 October 2022 is likely to have some big ramifications for the workforce. Social service, health and community agencies and iwi, Māori services, subject to Social Sector Accreditation and Health and Disability Standards, may be affected. Contractor versus Employee – why does it matter? The case concerned…
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Alcohol and drug use at work can be hazardous. At the Policy Place we address alcohol and drug use with policy and procedure aimed at preventing and mitigating the risks. Our alcohol and drug policy is part of our health and safety policy suite. As part of our online policy service it links easily to…
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Tikanga Māori is applicable in NZ courts and equally, applicable to kaupapa Māori and generalist social, health and education services. In our last post, we outlined the treatment of tikanga in Ngāti Whātua Orākei Trust v Attorney General – a Treaty-settlement case. In this post, we look at the Supreme Court’s treatment of tikanga in…
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Policies and procedures are vital to good governance in organisations and to a strong Governance/management relationship that is grounded in good faith. Like any relationship in the workplace, expectations on both sides – Governance and management – need to be clearly articulated in policies. Processes are also needed to support the relationship and to guide…
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So you’re on a Board of Trustees and want to achieve “good governance”. But you don’t know where your role as a Trustee starts and finishes nor how you should relate to the Manager/Kaiwhakahaere? Tricky governance issues but nothing that some good policies and procedures can’t fix. Governance policies At the Policy Place we are…
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At the Policy Place we’ve just finished reviewing and updating the core content of our online privacy policy pages. The policy content is aimed at helping our members comply with the Privacy Act 2020 and if they are a health agency, the Health Information Privacy Code 2020. We review and update core policies regularly based…
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It’s Matariki and on Friday, we in Aotearoa/NZ are looking forward to the first public holiday held to celebrate Matariki. Matariki marks the beginning of the Māori New Year. Matariki provides opportunity for organisations to put your policies and procedures to respect tikanga Māori into action. With Matariki upon us, I thought it was a…
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