ACC has withdrawn its proposal to increase the requirement for staff to be in the office from two days a week to three.
After consulting with employees and thoroughly reviewing their feedback, the agency said it chose to keep the existing arrangement.
Just recently, the Public Service Association (PSA) has asked the Commerce Commission to investigate ACC for a potential breach of the Fair Trading Act.
The PSA said ACC notified staff in October that starting December 1, they would be required to work in the office three days a week, up from the previous two days. This contradicted job advertisements that prominently promoted the option to work from home up to three days a week as a key benefit of working at ACC.
“ACC deliberately advertised flexible work arrangements to attract staff and is now looking to break that promise – this is exactly the kind of misleading conduct the Fair Trading Act is designed to prevent,” said Fleur Fitzsimons, National Secretary for the Public Service Association Te Pūkenga Here Tikanga Mahi.
“Job seekers deserve accurate information about working conditions, which employers are obliged to honour.”