Delivering the workforce and productivity gains required to build the houses, schools, roads, rail and hospitals New Zealand needs will become easier with the Government-industry Construction Sector Transformation Plan, Minister for Building and Construction Jenny Salesa says.“The action plan delivers on the Government’s Construction Sector Accord promise in April to develop a tangible plan that ensures industry has the right skills, the right people, and the right internal coordination to lift its productivity and take advantage of the quarter of a trillion dollars of public and private construction work expected over the next five years,” Jenny Salesa says.The Construction Sector Transformation Plan will see Government and industry:
- create a long-term workforce plan;
- strengthen industry’s voice in training: to shape the Reform of Vocational Education (RoVE), and through the new Workforce Development Councils;
- drive cooperation through information sharing and education programmes to improve culture and performance;
- promote simpler, shorter contracts that don’t overburden subcontractors in their dealings with bigger companies;
- develop a mental health strategy and expanding Mates in Construction to support better mental health in the trades;
- run diversity campaigns to encourage women and young people into construction.