By MICHAEL FIELD - Stuff
LATEST: Around 3500 Auckland local government workers are being told their jobs are safe in the new super-city later this year but another 3800 are to get letters saying decisions are still being made.
Another 200 mainly senior managers are being advised they will have to re-apply for their jobs.
The Auckland Transition Agency (ATA) today released the text of letters sent to local government workers in seven councils.
They councils are to be combined into one super city of 1.4 million people later this year.
ATA's Laila Harre said the letters would give surety to over 3500 staff who will be told they will transfer to the new council or one of its council-controlled organisations from November 1, 2010.
Another 3800 would stay in the "change process", she said.
"Remaining in the change process simply means that greater certainty for those people depends on the outcome of detailed organisational design work or decisions on future locations," she said.
The letter to 3500 workers said there would be no change, or only minor change, to roles or work locations.
The workers, who simply transfer on the day, are in areas such as parks, libraries and swimming pools, or provide regulatory services such as building and resource consents.
The letter to those workers says that the "transition process will not have a direct impact on your role and accordingly your employment is no longer in the full ATA change process.
"There will be a change in the name of your employer and in some cases new systems or processes may require some changes in your day-to-day work. Your job title and reporting line may also change. Such changes will not require a substantial change to your current role".
Those transfers would be on current terms and conditions of employment, with continuity of employees' existing service.
Another letter, which would go to 3800 local government workers, told them they remained in the "change process".
Their positions had not necessarily been dis-established, but more details needed to be worked out.
They letter each person got said that the process was about getting greater certainty about roles and locations.
"Receiving this letter is not notice that your role or location will change or that there is no role in any of the organisations for you," the letter said.
"While we are not yet able to provide you with greater certainty as to whether, or if so how, the ongoing change process might affect you personally, it is important you understand the next steps," the ATA letter said.
Around 200 people, generally senior managers, would be told that they remained in a change process.
"People in this category will have the opportunity to apply for roles in the future".
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