7 September 2020 
LGOIMA No. 8140007279 
 (Please quote this in any correspondence) 
 
 
Chris Chriatiaan 
By email: [FYI request #13504 email] 
 
 
Tēnā koe Chris 
 
 
Local Government Official Information And Meetings Act 1987 
Auckland Live redundancies 
 
I refer to your request dated 11 August 2020 about Auckland Live redundancies. Thank you 
for your patience while we have worked on this response. 
 
Auckland Live have embarked on a programme of cost savings since Covid-19 started to 
impact the organisation. This includes cost savings in several areas such as reducing staff 
hours, driving down leave liability and having Auckland Live staff work in other RFA business 
units which have continued to operate at the different alert levels.  
Auckland Live permanent staff have been used to support the additional social distancing 
requirements during alert levels 2 and 2.5 at other RFA business units and to undertake 
duties that other business units would traditionally use casual staff to cover. Subsequently, 
no staff from Auckland Live have been made redundant since 1 March 2020. 
As other cost savings initiatives have been actioned instead of redundancies no documents 
relating to redundancies are available. 
We will continue to make cost saving decisions based on how Covid-19 related restrictions 
impact Auckland Live. 
You have the right to seek an investigation and review of this response by the Ombudsman. 
Information about how to make a complaint is available at www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or 
freephone 0800 802 602. 
 
If  you  have  any  questions  please  contact  me  on  09  301  0101,  quoting  official  information 
number 8140007279. 
 
 
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Ngā mihi, 
 
 
 
 
Fernanda Maciel  
Privacy & LGOIMA Business Partner  
Democracy Services 
 
 
 
Private Bag 92300, Auckland 1142  |  aucklandcouncil.govt.nz  |  Ph 09 301 0101 

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