Outcome 2: Employment and economic security

Goal: We have security in our economic situation and can achieve our full potential.

This Outcome has four work programmes: 

Ministry of Social Development: Disability Employment Action Plan

Overall status: On track or ahead. 

Actions that were planned for 1 January 2020 to 30 June 2020

Actions completed in the period

Note any impacts from COVID-19

Complete public consultation on the draft Disability Employment Action Plan.

 

Officials undertook public consultation on the Action Plan with key stakeholders. The response to the consultation was encouraging and by the end of February 2020, officials had heard from over 375 stakeholders representing the views of organisations or wider membership groups.

 

Complete a summary of submissions from the public consultation, to release what we heard alongside the release of the final plan.

A summary document of consultation findings was prepared for public release.

 

Finalise the Disability Employment Action Plan, to progress through Cabinet and publicly release.

A revised version of the plan was prepared and well as a Cabinet paper. The paper and release was delayed due to COVID-19.

 

The Cabinet paper was agreed to, and then the final Action Plan Publicly released in July 2020.

The development of the final Action Plan was delayed due to a need to revise the plan to address the rapidly changing economic and social context in the wake of COVID-19.

Develop a monitoring and evaluation framework to support the implementation of the Action Plan.

Work is currently underway on the monitoring and evaluation framework.

The development of the framework has been delayed due to COVID-19.

Ministry of Social Development: Increasing the employment of disabled people in the public sector (Lead Toolkit)

Status update: On track or ahead

Actions that were planned for 1 January 2020 to 30 June 2020

Actions completed in the period

Note any impacts from COVID-19

Quarterly Lead Toolkit meetings

Completed

 

All of Government Disabled network quarterly meeting

Completed

 

Finalised the content of the pamphlet for the All of Government Disabled Network - "We Enable Us."

Completed

 

Drafted the paper to secure funding for the All of Government internship programme supporting disabled people in regular government internship programmes

Completed

Delay in getting the paper finalised because COVID work was a higher priority

Drafted the resource - Retaining existing disabled staff

Completed

 

Completed the six-monthly report

Completed

 

Articles published in HINZ and Employment today

Completed

 

Transferred material from SSC to MSD and changed the Lead toolkit to be for all employers

 

 

Narrative – Any celebrations? What is going well? What is being learned? Any impacts?

Working with the other Employee Networks to develop resources to support all networks. The six-monthly report highlighted some innovative activity especially in the growth of the number of disabled employee-led networks and agencies developing Reasonable accommodation policies. The use of Zoom during COVID 19 to connect with disabled employees to address issues.

Ministry of Social Development: National Information Portal and regional hubs

Overall status: On track or ahead

Actions that were planned for 1 January 2020 to 30 June 2020

Actions completed in the period

Note any impacts from COVID-19

Development of employment key messages

Completed

 

Incorporating disability within MBIE's business.govt.nz site

Completed

 

Updating the Lead Toolkit material to be relevant to all businesses

Completed

 

Completing an article for business.govt.nz site on employing disabled people

Completed

 

Six monthly reporting

Completed

 

Narrative – Any celebrations? What is going well? What is being learned? Any impacts?

Employment key messages were developed with Disabled People representatives and are based on the belief that disabled people work with the right support. One important thing that is often forgotten is disabled peole are also employers - and we make great employers.

Ministry of Social Development: Replacing Minimum Wage Exemption permits

Status update: Off track - but low risks/issues

Actions that were planned for 1 January 2020 to 30 June 2020

Actions completed in the period

Note any impacts from COVID-19

This work programme is still under active consideration, so we are unable to provide advice on planned actions/deliverables at this time

This work is under active consideration and so we are not able to comment on actions at this time.

COVID-19 impacted on our deliverables resulting in some delays to this work programme.

Narrative – Any celebrations? What is going well? What is being learned? Any impacts?

The Cabinet paper containing a report back from the Ministers for Disability Issues and for Workplace Relations and Safety in November 2019 on the results of public consultation and design of a wage supplement approach to replace MWE permits was proactively released .

MSD officials worked on the design of a wage supplement. Part of this work has been focusing on how the replacement of MWE permits will impact on disabled people and their families and ensuring that appropriate measures are in place to mitigate any possible adverse consequences. COVID-19 has impacted on deliverables for this work, due to the need for agency resources to be prioritised for the COVID-19 response. Ministers' priorities also shifted to respond to COVID-19 and, as a result, the timeframes for this work have encountered some delays.

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