June 11, 2024
Māori roles first on chopping block
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An employment recruiter says Māori jobs and positions seem to make up a significant proportion of the 4000 jobs culled so far from the state sector, with more to come.
Russell Spratt from Wellington-based TribeRecruit says a lot of the jobs that have gone were Māori roles established in response to treaty policy.
“Māori-specific jobs within the state sector, roles that I’ve had the privilege of seeing being built up and the capacity and size and scale of these jobs increasing over the last 10 or so years. And now these jobs too are being impacted and that’s just sad and I think it’s wrong,” he says.
Mr Spratt says many Māori public servants will look to move overseas, but you don’t build a better country by getting people to leave.