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National Advisory Council on the Employment of Women: Forty Years of Work 1967-2007

Appendix 2

Submissions made by NACEW 1967-2007

From its beginnings one of NACEW's terms of reference has been:

To make representations and submissions as appropriate to public bodes such as Commissions of Inquiry, subject to the approval of the Minister.

This list of submissions has been taken from the annual reports:

Annual Report

Submission

1969

• Royal Commission on Social Security

1970

• Commission of Inquiry into Equal Pay

1973

• General statement to Educational Development Conference

• Statement on child care services to Educational Development Conference

1974

• Parliamentary Select Committee on Women's Rights

1976

• Task Force on Economic and Social planning

• Domestic Purposes Benefit Review Committee

1978

• New Zealand Planning Council's publication Income Maintenance and Taxation: Some Options for Reform

1979

• Family Proceedings Bill

1980

• Maternity Leave and Employment Protection Bill

1981

• Statutes Revision Committee on Human Rights Commission Act Amendment Bill

• Labour and Employment/Accidents and Injuries Statistics Review Committee

• Apprenticeship for Tomorrow

1982

• Task Force on Youth Training

• Commerce and Energy Select Committee on the Quarries and Tunnels Bill

• Department of Labour concerning restructuring the District Employment Advisory Committees.

1983

• Energy Advisory Committee on 1982 Energy Plan, 'Construction Workforce Demands and Implications'

• Apprenticeship Bill

• Department of Statistics on 1986 Census

• Coal Mines Amendment Bill

• Industrial Law Reform Bill

1984

• Attendance at Economic Summit Conference (12-14 September 1984)

• Paper for Economic Summit Conference on 'Women in the Labour Market: Social Equity and Economic Recovery'

• Director General of Education on the Review of the Core Curriculum for Schools

• Minister of Employment on the Review of Employment Subsidy Programme

• Minister of Employment on proposed reservations to be made by New Zealand on ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms Of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)

1985

• Department of Social Welfare on the discussion paper 'Review of Childcare funding'

• Budget '85 Task Force on the Budget '85 Discussion Paper

• Advisory Panel on Training and Employment Programme on the discussion paper 'Skills for Young People'

• State Services Amendment Bill (No 2)

• Review of Mining Legislation

1986

• Minister of Labour on the Industrial Relations Green Paper

• Ministerial Task Force on Income Maintenance

• Ministerial Task Force on Social Welfare Services

1987

• Labour Select Committee on the Parental Leave and Employment Protection Bill

• Minister of Education in response to the discussion booklet Further Education and Training: Who should pay?

• Minister of Education in response to the discussion booklet Tertiary Education in New Zealand

• Labour Select Committee on the Access Training Scheme

• Royal Commission on Social Policy

1988/1989

• Supplementary submission to the Royal Commission on Social Policy

• Minister of Labour regarding the State Sector Bill

• Minister of Education in response to the Report of the Taskforce to Review Education Administration

• Minister of Labour in response to Towards Employment Equity the report of the Working Group on Equal Employment Opportunities/Equal Pay

• Minister of Employment in response to the Report of the Working Group on Post-Compulsory Education and Training

• Minister of State Services in response to the Government proposals to extend membership of the State Services Commission

• Minister of State Services regarding the review of the State Services' Equal Employment Opportunities Unit.

1989/1990[94]

• Minister of Labour regarding the Employment Equity Bill

• Minister of Employment regarding women and non-traditional trades

• Minister of Employment in response to discussion document on review of Disabled Persons Employment Protection Act 1960

• Minister of Labour regarding review of Parental Leave and Employment Protection Act 1987.

1990/1991

• Working Group on implementation of Employment Equity

• Employments Contracts Bill

• NZQA discussion document "Designing the Framework'

1991/1992

• Accident Rehabilitation and Compensation Insurance Bill 1991

• Health and Safety in Employment Bill

• Industry Training Bill

• Amendments to the Human Rights Commission Act

1993/1994

• Submission prior to release of the Issues Report of Task Force on Employment Policy and then a submission in response to the Issues Report

• Two consultation meetings for women with Task Force on Employment Policy in conjunction with the Minister of Women's Affairs

1994/1995

• Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) Trust Review

• Careers information and Guidance Review

• Review of Accident Compensation Corporation

1995/1996

• Employment Task Force

• Review of Accident Compensation Corporation

• Pre-employment Guidelines prepared by Human Rights Commission

• Review of Equal Employment Opportunities Trust

• Review of the Holidays Act

• Ministry of Education on Capital Development Assistance for early childhood education

• Met with Law Commission on their project Women's Access to Justice

• Careers Information and Guidance Review

1996/1997

• Employment Strategy Implementation Steering Group on proposed employment policy changes

• Ministry of Education on School Holidays and Term Dates

1997/1998

• Social Services Select Committee on the Social Security (Work Test) Amendment Bill

• Review of the Holidays Act 1981

• Review of the National Qualifications Framework ad

• Future Tertiary Education Policy

1998/1999

• Minister of Employment on employment policy changes and benefit reform

• Paid Parental Leave Bill

• Submission to Statistics New Zealand on 2001 Census

1999/2000

• Employment Relations Bill to Employment and Accident Insurance Legislation Committee

• Social Services Select Committee on the Paid Parental Leave Bill

• to Minister of Social Services, Work and Income on Changes to employment and benefit policy

• Statistics New Zealand on the content of 2001 Census

• Paid Parental Leave Bill

2000/2001

• Annual Review of the Minimum Wage to Minister of Labour

• ILO Maternity Protection Convention 2000 to the Department of Labour

2001/2002

• Submission on Parental Leave and Employment Protection (Paid Parental Leave) Amendment Bill

• Annual review of minimum wage

2002/2003

• Annual review of minimum wage

• Ministry of Social Development on research design of the Work, Family and Parenting Study

• Ministry of Women's Affairs' Plan of Action for New Zealand women

• Response to Ministry of Women's Affairs' 'Next Steps to Pay Equity'

2003/2004

• Employment Relations Law Reform Bill

• Annual review of minimum wage

2004/2005

• Annual review of minimum wage

2005/2006

• Annual review of minimum wage

• Parental Leave and Employment Protection (Paid Parental Leave for Self-Employed Persons) Amendment Bill 2005


[94] The annual report for this year covers the period 1 April 1989 to 30 June 1990.

 

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