News Article: Extra pay for indigenous staff recognises ‘cultural workload’

New Zealand’s Tertiary Education Union hopes to “standardise” each institution’s treatment of cultural load in negotiations towards new collective agreements this year, according to Te Awatea Ward, co-branch president of the union’s Massey branch. She said Māori staff often devoted 10 to 15 per cent of their time on the job to cultural work, irrespective of whether it lay in their job descriptions.