Tēnā koe,

Thank you for your Official Information Act request.

We will endeavour to respond to your request as soon as possible and, in any event, no later than 20 working days after the day that your request was received. If we are unable to respond to your request by then, we will notify you of an extension of that timeframe.

If you have any queries, please feel free to contact [NZSIS request email].

Ngā mihi,
NZSIS

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott <[FOI #15115 email]>
Sent: Friday, 9 April 2021 2:13 PM
To: OIA Privacy <[NZSIS request email]>
Subject: Official Information request - Documents and Research Reports Relating to Workforce Diversity, Inclusion and Retention

Dear New Zealand Security Intelligence Service,

Hope you're well. This is a request for the following documents:

Six sets of NZSIS documents:

1. NZSIS Code of Conduct

2. NZSIS Parental Leave Policy

3. NZSIS Childcare Policy

4. NZSIS Transitioning Guidelines

5. Documents relating to NZSIS' in-house rainbow-inclusion training, including PowerPoint presentations, guides and other teaching materials. If there is a seperate set of rainbow-inclusion training documents specifically for NZSIS vetting staff, I request those as well.

6. Documents relating to NZSIS unconscious bias training, including PowerPoint presentations, guides and other teaching materials.

Three NZIC research reports, including copies of any resulting recommendations:

1. Insights into Māori, Pasifika, Asian, Middle Eastern/African and Women’s perception of the NZIC as a place to work, conducted for NZSIS by an external firm and due for completion July 2019.

2. Experiences of staff taking parental leave in the NZIC, completed by publication of the 2019 NZSIS Annual Report.

3. Experience of women employed in the NZIC, completed by publication of the 2019 NZSIS Annual Report.

And one other NZIC document:

1. The NZIC Retention Strategy. I also request copies of any research reports, dated since the beginning of 2019, dealing with staff retention.

Yours faithfully,

Scott

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Good afternoon Scott

We refer to your official information request dated 9 April 2021 as outlined below. The Official Information Act 1982 requires that we advise you of our decision on your request no later than 20 working days after the day that we received your request. Unfortunately, it will not be possible to meet that time limit and we are, therefore, writing to notify you of an extension of the time to make our decision, to 23 June 2021.

This extension is necessary because, the consultations necessary to make a decision on your request are such that a proper response cannot reasonably be made within the original time limit.

If you wish to discuss any aspect of your request with us, including this decision, please feel free to contact [NZSIS request email].

You have the right to seek an investigation and review by the Ombudsman of this decision. Information about how to make a complaint is available at www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or freephone 0800 802 602.

Kind regards
NZSIS & GCSB

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott <[FOI #15115 email]>
Sent: Friday, 9 April 2021 2:13 PM
To: OIA Privacy <[NZSIS request email]>
Subject: Official Information request - Documents and Research Reports Relating to Workforce Diversity, Inclusion and Retention

Dear New Zealand Security Intelligence Service,

Hope you're well. This is a request for the following documents:

Six sets of NZSIS documents:

1. NZSIS Code of Conduct

2. NZSIS Parental Leave Policy

3. NZSIS Childcare Policy

4. NZSIS Transitioning Guidelines

5. Documents relating to NZSIS' in-house rainbow-inclusion training, including PowerPoint presentations, guides and other teaching materials. If there is a seperate set of rainbow-inclusion training documents specifically for NZSIS vetting staff, I request those as well.

6. Documents relating to NZSIS unconscious bias training, including PowerPoint presentations, guides and other teaching materials.

Three NZIC research reports, including copies of any resulting recommendations:

1. Insights into Māori, Pasifika, Asian, Middle Eastern/African and Women’s perception of the NZIC as a place to work, conducted for NZSIS by an external firm and due for completion July 2019.

2. Experiences of staff taking parental leave in the NZIC, completed by publication of the 2019 NZSIS Annual Report.

3. Experience of women employed in the NZIC, completed by publication of the 2019 NZSIS Annual Report.

And one other NZIC document:

1. The NZIC Retention Strategy. I also request copies of any research reports, dated since the beginning of 2019, dealing with staff retention.

Yours faithfully,

Scott

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This is an Official Information request made via the FYI website.

Please use this email address for all replies to this request:
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Any classification markings must be adhered to. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not peruse, disclose, disseminate, copy or use the message in
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from NZIC. This communication may be accessed or retained for information assurance purposes. Thank you.

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Hello Scott

This is to advise that the Director-General has made a decision on your OIA request.

Some information will be provided to you and other information will be withheld under sections 6(a) and 9 of the OIA. Some of the information you have asked for is either publicly available or does not exist and therefore falls under sections 18(d) and 18(e) respectively.

We will provide the information to you without undue delay.

Kind regards
NZSIS

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott <[FOI #15115 email]>
Sent: Friday, 9 April 2021 2:13 PM
To: OIA Privacy <[NZSIS request email]>
Subject: Official Information request - Documents and Research Reports Relating to Workforce Diversity, Inclusion and Retention

Dear New Zealand Security Intelligence Service,

Hope you're well. This is a request for the following documents:

Six sets of NZSIS documents:

1. NZSIS Code of Conduct

2. NZSIS Parental Leave Policy

3. NZSIS Childcare Policy

4. NZSIS Transitioning Guidelines

5. Documents relating to NZSIS' in-house rainbow-inclusion training, including PowerPoint presentations, guides and other teaching materials. If there is a seperate set of rainbow-inclusion training documents specifically for NZSIS vetting staff, I request those as well.

6. Documents relating to NZSIS unconscious bias training, including PowerPoint presentations, guides and other teaching materials.

Three NZIC research reports, including copies of any resulting recommendations:

1. Insights into Māori, Pasifika, Asian, Middle Eastern/African and Women’s perception of the NZIC as a place to work, conducted for NZSIS by an external firm and due for completion July 2019.

2. Experiences of staff taking parental leave in the NZIC, completed by publication of the 2019 NZSIS Annual Report.

3. Experience of women employed in the NZIC, completed by publication of the 2019 NZSIS Annual Report.

And one other NZIC document:

1. The NZIC Retention Strategy. I also request copies of any research reports, dated since the beginning of 2019, dealing with staff retention.

Yours faithfully,

Scott

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This is an Official Information request made via the FYI website.

Please use this email address for all replies to this request:
[FOI #15115 email]

Is [NZSIS request email] the wrong address for Official Information requests to New Zealand Security Intelligence Service? If so, please contact us using this form:
https://fyi.org.nz/change_request/new?bo...

Disclaimer: This message and any reply that you make will be published on the internet. Our privacy and copyright policies:
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This electronic message, together with any attachments, contains information that is provided in confidence and may be subject to legal privilege.
Any classification markings must be adhered to. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not peruse, disclose, disseminate, copy or use the message in
any way. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by return email and then destroy the original message.
The New Zealand Intelligence Community (NZIC) and the departments comprising the NZIC accepts no responsibility for changes to this e-mail, or to any attachments, after its transmission
from NZIC. This communication may be accessed or retained for information assurance purposes. Thank you.

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Kia ora Scott,

Please find attached the Director-General's response to your OIA request. Please note that due to the file size, we are sending this response to you in three emails, with seven PDF attachments in total.

Thank you for your patience while we prepared these documents for release.

Ngā mihi

NZSIS

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott <[FYI request #15115 email]>
Sent: Friday, 9 April 2021 2:13 PM
To: OIA Privacy <[NZSIS request email]>
Subject: Official Information request - Documents and Research Reports Relating to Workforce Diversity, Inclusion and Retention

Dear New Zealand Security Intelligence Service,

Hope you're well. This is a request for the following documents:

Six sets of NZSIS documents:

1. NZSIS Code of Conduct

2. NZSIS Parental Leave Policy

3. NZSIS Childcare Policy

4. NZSIS Transitioning Guidelines

5. Documents relating to NZSIS' in-house rainbow-inclusion training, including PowerPoint presentations, guides and other teaching materials. If there is a seperate set of rainbow-inclusion training documents specifically for NZSIS vetting staff, I request those as well.

6. Documents relating to NZSIS unconscious bias training, including PowerPoint presentations, guides and other teaching materials.

Three NZIC research reports, including copies of any resulting recommendations:

1. Insights into Māori, Pasifika, Asian, Middle Eastern/African and Women’s perception of the NZIC as a place to work, conducted for NZSIS by an external firm and due for completion July 2019.

2. Experiences of staff taking parental leave in the NZIC, completed by publication of the 2019 NZSIS Annual Report.

3. Experience of women employed in the NZIC, completed by publication of the 2019 NZSIS Annual Report.

And one other NZIC document:

1. The NZIC Retention Strategy. I also request copies of any research reports, dated since the beginning of 2019, dealing with staff retention.

Yours faithfully,

Scott

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This is an Official Information request made via the FYI website.

Please use this email address for all replies to this request:
[FYI request #15115 email]

Is [NZSIS request email] the wrong address for Official Information requests to New Zealand Security Intelligence Service? If so, please contact us using this form:
https://fyi.org.nz/change_request/new?bo...

Disclaimer: This message and any reply that you make will be published on the internet. Our privacy and copyright policies:
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If you find this service useful as an Official Information officer, please ask your web manager to link to us from your organisation's OIA or LGOIMA page.

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This electronic message, together with any attachments, contains information that is provided in confidence and may be subject to legal privilege.
Any classification markings must be adhered to. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not peruse, disclose, disseminate, copy or use the message in
any way. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by return email and then destroy the original message.
The New Zealand Intelligence Community (NZIC) and the departments comprising the NZIC accepts no responsibility for changes to this e-mail, or to any attachments, after its transmission
from NZIC. This communication may be accessed or retained for information assurance purposes. Thank you.

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Kia ora Scott,

Please find attached further parts in response to your OIA request. Please note that the document in part 4 is continued in part 5, which is attached to our third email.

Ngâ mihi

NZSIS

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott <[FYI request #15115 email]>
Sent: Friday, 9 April 2021 2:13 PM
To: OIA Privacy <[NZSIS request email]>
Subject: Official Information request - Documents and Research Reports Relating to Workforce Diversity, Inclusion and Retention

Dear New Zealand Security Intelligence Service,

Hope you're well. This is a request for the following documents:

Six sets of NZSIS documents:

1. NZSIS Code of Conduct

2. NZSIS Parental Leave Policy

3. NZSIS Childcare Policy

4. NZSIS Transitioning Guidelines

5. Documents relating to NZSIS' in-house rainbow-inclusion training, including PowerPoint presentations, guides and other teaching materials. If there is a seperate set of rainbow-inclusion training documents specifically for NZSIS vetting staff, I request those as well.

6. Documents relating to NZSIS unconscious bias training, including PowerPoint presentations, guides and other teaching materials.

Three NZIC research reports, including copies of any resulting recommendations:

1. Insights into Mâori, Pasifika, Asian, Middle Eastern/African and Women’s perception of the NZIC as a place to work, conducted for NZSIS by an external firm and due for completion July 2019.

2. Experiences of staff taking parental leave in the NZIC, completed by publication of the 2019 NZSIS Annual Report.

3. Experience of women employed in the NZIC, completed by publication of the 2019 NZSIS Annual Report.

And one other NZIC document:

1. The NZIC Retention Strategy. I also request copies of any research reports, dated since the beginning of 2019, dealing with staff retention.

Yours faithfully,

Scott

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This is an Official Information request made via the FYI website.

Please use this email address for all replies to this request:
[FYI request #15115 email]

Is [NZSIS request email] the wrong address for Official Information requests to New Zealand Security Intelligence Service? If so, please contact us using this form:
https://fyi.org.nz/change_request/new?bo...

Disclaimer: This message and any reply that you make will be published on the internet. Our privacy and copyright policies:
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If you find this service useful as an Official Information officer, please ask your web manager to link to us from your organisation's OIA or LGOIMA page.

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Any classification markings must be adhered to. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not peruse, disclose, disseminate, copy or use the message in
any way. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by return email and then destroy the original message.
The New Zealand Intelligence Community (NZIC) and the departments comprising the NZIC accepts no responsibility for changes to this e-mail, or to any attachments, after its transmission
from NZIC. This communication may be accessed or retained for information assurance purposes. Thank you.

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Kia ora Scott,

Please find attached further parts in response to your OIA request. Please note that part 5, is the second half of the report in part 4, which was attached to our second email.

Ngâ mihi

NZSIS

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott <[FYI request #15115 email]>
Sent: Friday, 9 April 2021 2:13 PM
To: OIA Privacy <[NZSIS request email]>
Subject: Official Information request - Documents and Research Reports Relating to Workforce Diversity, Inclusion and Retention

Dear New Zealand Security Intelligence Service,

Hope you're well. This is a request for the following documents:

Six sets of NZSIS documents:

1. NZSIS Code of Conduct

2. NZSIS Parental Leave Policy

3. NZSIS Childcare Policy

4. NZSIS Transitioning Guidelines

5. Documents relating to NZSIS' in-house rainbow-inclusion training, including PowerPoint presentations, guides and other teaching materials. If there is a seperate set of rainbow-inclusion training documents specifically for NZSIS vetting staff, I request those as well.

6. Documents relating to NZSIS unconscious bias training, including PowerPoint presentations, guides and other teaching materials.

Three NZIC research reports, including copies of any resulting recommendations:

1. Insights into Mâori, Pasifika, Asian, Middle Eastern/African and Women’s perception of the NZIC as a place to work, conducted for NZSIS by an external firm and due for completion July 2019.

2. Experiences of staff taking parental leave in the NZIC, completed by publication of the 2019 NZSIS Annual Report.

3. Experience of women employed in the NZIC, completed by publication of the 2019 NZSIS Annual Report.

And one other NZIC document:

1. The NZIC Retention Strategy. I also request copies of any research reports, dated since the beginning of 2019, dealing with staff retention.

Yours faithfully,

Scott

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This is an Official Information request made via the FYI website.

Please use this email address for all replies to this request:
[FYI request #15115 email]

Is [NZSIS request email] the wrong address for Official Information requests to New Zealand Security Intelligence Service? If so, please contact us using this form:
https://fyi.org.nz/change_request/new?bo...

Disclaimer: This message and any reply that you make will be published on the internet. Our privacy and copyright policies:
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If you find this service useful as an Official Information officer, please ask your web manager to link to us from your organisation's OIA or LGOIMA page.

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This electronic message, together with any attachments, contains information that is provided in confidence and may be subject to legal privilege.
Any classification markings must be adhered to. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not peruse, disclose, disseminate, copy or use the message in
any way. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by return email and then destroy the original message.
The New Zealand Intelligence Community (NZIC) and the departments comprising the NZIC accepts no responsibility for changes to this e-mail, or to any attachments, after its transmission
from NZIC. This communication may be accessed or retained for information assurance purposes. Thank you.

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