{"id":247265,"date":"2026-01-23T04:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T04:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/247265\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T04:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T04:37:07","slug":"fenzs-proposed-restructuring-plan-challenged-at-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/247265\/","title":{"rendered":"FENZ&#8217;s proposed restructuring plan challenged at ERA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FENZ&#8217;s proposed restructuring \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The FENZ&#8217;s restructuring plan, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hcamag.com\/nz\/specialisation\/change-management\/fire-and-emergency-nz-proposes-job-cuts-in-major-restructure\/556412\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announced in November<\/a>, will cut 97 non-firefighting roles and significantly change 66 others, according to the unions.<\/p>\n<p>FENZ CEO Kerry Gregory said last year that the plan was about ensuring that the agency is &#8220;best positioned to deliver a modern and responsive emergency service.&#8221; \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But the unions accused Gregory of sending an error-riddled restructure document to the unions after close of business on November 11, with some pages initially missing and at least 24 substantive errors identified. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And less than half an hour before the embargo expired the next day, Gregory sent hundreds of additional pages, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scoop.co.nz\/stories\/PO2601\/S00057\/psa-and-firefighters-union-head-to-era-to-stop-reckless-fenz-job-cuts.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to the unions<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can&#8217;t consult on a near-completed plan full of errors that was prepared in a process from which you completely excluded the very people the law requires you to involve,&#8221; Fitzsimons said. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FENZ&#8217;s proposed restructuring \u00a0 The FENZ&#8217;s restructuring plan, announced in November, will cut 97 non-firefighting roles and significantly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[19014,1144,111,43,139,69,20877],"class_list":["post-247265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-consultation","tag-human-resources","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-restructure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}