The current rate for a beginning MLPAT at Awanui is $23.00/hr. Astonishingly, that is below what the government has announced will be the minimum wage from 1 April 2024: $23.15/hr’.
Laboratory Workers at SCL Labs – part of Awanui Labs - in the South Island and Wellington region will strike for 24 hours on Monday 5th February 2024.
Full withdrawal strike action at Awanui Labs will proceed tomorrow (Friday 17th November) and Monday 20th November.
Laboratory Workers at SCL Labs – part of Awanui Labs - in the South Island and Wellington region will strike on Friday 17th 2023 and Monday 20th November.
Agreement on salary increases to address historical sex-based undervaluation of allied scientific and technical health practitioners has been made between APEX, PSA & Te Whatu Ora.
Collective bargaining negotiations between APEX and Awanui, the largest private laboratory provider in the country, have come to a standstill over the principal issue of pay.
In the middle of a bitter pay dispute between APEX members and Awanui Labs, more news has emerged about the crisis in the medical laboratory sector.
