She found out in front of 50 colleagues that her name had been quietly removed
A consultant physician at Middlemore Hospital has won three personal grievances against Health New Zealand after the employer unilaterally cut her agreed pay - then ignored her complaints about it.
The Employment Relations Authority issued its determination on October 16, 2026, finding Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora (HNZ) breached its obligations under the Senior Medical and Dental Officers collective agreement by reducing the physician's workbook without mutual agreement, failing to properly engage with her formal workplace complaints, and subjecting her to disparate treatment when she volunteered for additional duties.
The Authority ordered HNZ to pay $25,000 in compensation for humiliation, loss of dignity and injury to feelings, plus wage arrears of approximately $100,118 with interest.
The case turned on something called a workbook - a tool used in Middlemore's general medicine department to map out each senior medical officer's duties and corresponding pay. The physician described it as a wall of bricks, each brick representing a duty with a value attached. The total value determines the doctor's salary.
Under the collective agreement, a physician's hours of work and job size must be "mutually agreed" and must objectively reflect the requirements of the service. Compiling and revising a workbook had historically been a collaborative process between the doctor, head...
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