Roads of National Significance<\/a>.<\/p>\n“What they’re doing is actually cutting the people who will build their flagship projects.”<\/p>\n
This latest proposal meant nearly one-in-five workers at NZTA were facing uncertainty about their employment, the PSA said.<\/p>\n
NZTA told RNZ the restructures were in response to a review of how it plans, invests in, delivers and manages transport system assets.<\/p>\n
“We have identified the need for clearer, more connected end\u2011to\u2011end ways of working, including earlier and more collaborative planning, more consistent investment decision\u2011making, and a sharper focus on delivery and asset management.”<\/p>\n
The changes were aimed at reducing duplication, strengthening accountability, and ensuring it was set up to effectively deliver its services, NZTA said.<\/p>\n
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\nDuane Leo.
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Leo said he did not buy that.<\/p>\n
“We’ve heard this consistently over the term of this coalition government: ‘it’s about efficiencies, it’s about making the public service more responsive’. This is not the case. It’s cost-cutting.”<\/p>\n
NZTA said it was currently formally consulting with people in its system leadership, commercial and corporate and transport services groups on the proposal.<\/p>\n
The PSA had made submissions to NZTA on behalf of all the groups that would be affected, Leo said.<\/p>\n
Final redundancy decisions would be announced in July for workers in transport services and in August for commercial and corporate and system leadership staff.<\/p>\n
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