Resilience
Timeframe: short, medium and long term
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Enable workforce resilience across individual, community and industry layers by partnering with and coordinating between Iwi/hapū, industry groups, employers, and key government agencies.
Partner with iwi/hapū and Māori employers around their approaches to worker support and look for opportunities to improve Māori resilience. This may include supporting growth and scaling of their efforts.
Expected outcomes
- Māori workers see an increase in workforce resilience by being better equipped and confident to engage, participate and remain in employment.
Key stakeholders
- Iwi partners and social service providers
- Te Kāhui Mātauranga
- Manawa Tū Work for Life Centre
- Māori employers
- Council of Trade Unions
Co-ordinate between those who provide support to Māori workers in the community and the employers who recruit them to find ways to improve workforce resilience (e.g through sharing good employer models of pastoral care, transition planning and support for their workforce.
Expected outcomes
- Employers in BOP collaborate with their communities and grow their knowledge and understanding of how to support their Māori workers.
- Sharing of best practice across the region will strengthen support for workers and account for future disruptions improving workforce resilience.
Key stakeholders
- Iwi partners and social service providers
- EDAs
- MSD
- TPK
- Māori employers and key sector employers
- ISK
- Eastern Bay of Plenty Workforce Action Group
- EMA
- Tourism BOP
- NZKGI
- Māori industry groups, whenua Māori owner reps,
- Te Kāhui Mātauranga
- Council of Trade Unions
Engage with development of the Income Insurance Scheme to identify other components that could wrap around the scheme to produce a more complete system of support.
Expected outcomes
- A robust system of support that is fit for purpose is more than just financial provision and is responsive to the broader range of needs of displaced workers.
Key stakeholders
- Responsible government agencies including: MBIE, ACC, TPK
- Hapū and iwi Rūnanga; Te Kāhui Mātauranga
- Council of Trade Unions