Employment Law Changes, PMPYA Winners, Christmas-New Year Dates and more
21 Dec 2021

Employment Law Changes, PMPYA Winners, Christmas-New Year Dates and more

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In this newsletter:

  • Auckland Pacific Businesses Keep Moving Forward

  • Employment law changes relating to mandatory vaccine requirements

  • Stallholders, entertainers and performers still time to register your interest for exciting 2022 opportunities

  • Congratulations to PMPYA Winners

  • Unique Moana Pasifika jersey to celebrate Pacific heritage

  • Moana Pasifika delivers some Christmas cheer to the community

  • PBT Office Closure During Christmas/New Year


Auckland Pacific Businesses Keep Moving Forward

Check if you’re eligible for the support available to Pacific businesses in Auckland by taking a few minutes to register for the Activate Tamaki Makaurau initiative. Designed to help navigate the current environment in Auckland, businesses can get help with cashflow management, identifying online opportunities including digital and technology support, as well as HR advice such as managing staff in the new traffic light system framework.

Sign up here and one of our team members will be in touch.


Employment law changes relating to mandatory vaccine requirements

Employment New Zealand has developed factsheets that outline the employment law changes relating to vaccine mandate requirements, under the COVID-19 Protection Framework (the traffic light system).

Download translation here:

 

Employment NZ warmly invites you to also attend a Zoom webinar that outlines the Government vaccination mandates for certain work under the current traffic light system and the relevant employment law including:

  1. Reasonable paid time off for employees to get vaccinated

  2. Minimum 4 week’s paid notice period for termination of employment, where this is applicable

The webinar will be held on the following dates:

WhereZoom When: Tuesday 11th Jan 2022, 2pm-3pm

WhereZoom When: Friday 14th Jan 2022, 10am-11am


Stallholders, entertainers and performers still time to register your interest for exciting opportunities in 2022

Moana Pasifika and the Pacific Business Trust are collaborating to provide opportunities for Pacific performers, stallholders and entertainers to perform at the rugby matches next year.

There is still time to apply, the applications have been extended until 6 January. Please use the links below to register your interest:

Food Stallholders - Apply Here 

Retail & Craft Stallholders - Apply Here

Entertainers & Performers - Apply Here

One of our team members will be in touch in early January with the next steps.


Congratulations to PMPYA Winners

The Prime Minister’s Pacific Youth Awards (PMPYA) celebrates the outstanding achievements of eight exceptional recipients who have played a pivotal role in advocating for their language and culture, leadership and entrepreneurship and for efforts in arts, education and the community.

We offer our heartfelt congratulations to the recipients for 2021:

  • Language, Culture & Identity (Ministry for Pacific Peoples) - Winner: Veilomani Tafa

  • Leadership & Inspiration (Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade & Air New Zealand) –Winner: Moana Kaori Yasumitsu Tsujido

  • Commercial & Corporate (Deloitte) - Winner: Ezekiel Fiso

  • Teach NZ (Ministry of Education) - Winner: Joyce Turu Ieremia

  • Business & Entrepreneurship (Pacific Business Trust) - Winner: Sarah Colcord

  • Arts & Creativity (Creative New Zealand & Massey University) - Winner: Lealofitaute Vaai

  • Community Star (Auckland City Council) - Winner: Janah Iulia Autagavaia

  • International Scholar (Pacific Cooperation Foundation) - Winner: Luna-Rossa Lomitusi-Ape

We would like to make a special mention to the winner of the Business and Entrepreneurship Award sponsored by PBT – Sarah Colcord. Congratulations Sarah on your achievements with Chooice, creating the largest Facebook group in New Zealand and a marketplace for sole traders and small business to promote and sell their products.

Watch our announcement here.


Unique Moana Pasifika jersey to celebrate Pacific heritage

Moana Pasifika and apparel partner Dynasty have just released a special limited edition heritage jersey which proudly celebrates the colours of our two biggest Pacific Islands rugby playing nations, Samoa and Tonga. The unique blue and red jersey design includes both country’s tatau patterns which are intertwined across the chest to become one and is reflective of the same way Pasifika people come together to support each other.

Four champions of Samoan and Tongan rugby were invited to share what it meant to them to put on their nation’s colours and represent Pasifika, and is showcased in a stirring video entitled ‘Our People Our Heritage’, click to view here.

Moana Pasifika’s heritage jersey is on sale in stores across New Zealand and available for purchase online at https://shop.moanapasifika.co.nz/.


Moana Pasifika delivers some Christmas cheer to the community

Over the past two weeks Moana Pasifika partnered with the team at The Village Trust to support their important food bank work and helped pack some very special food parcels volunteering their time on their day off.

After filling boxes with Christmas goodies and wrapping gifts for children, the team headed out in their cars to deliver the Christmas food parcels across Auckland and onto the doorsteps of our Pacific families who are doing it tough in these challenging times, having to isolate due to Covid.

Fresh out of MIQ himself, Christian Lealiifano shared “It’s really humbling to see what Sir Michael Jones and his team and family do here in the village and what they do for the community is truly special. We’re just trying to do our small part trying to contribute to help the families that are vulnerable and in need… it’s part of who we are as people.”

Watch video here


PBT Office Closure During Christmas/New Year

Our Pacific Business Trust team will be operating up until Friday 24 December 12.30pm and will be available in the New Year commencing Wednesday 5 January 2021. Our 0800 number will be transferred to voicemail throughout the holidays.

Wishing you all the very best of the Christmas season and the New Year! 

From the team at PBT 

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