Ministry of Education employees work from home after discovering the earthquake threat in the building

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More than 1,000 Ministry of Education staff will work from home until at least September after an engineering assessment revealed an earthquake risk in the building it occupies.

Maturanga’s home on Boyne Street in Wellington which was previously reinforced by over 90 per cent New Building Standard (NBS).

However, Education Minister Iona Holstead said it was now rated by engineers as 25 per cent of NBS because of the building’s concrete floors.

Holsted said other aspects of the building continued to be evaluated well.

“Along with the engineers’ report and after health and safety assessment, we decided to work and our staff at the Maturanga house were asked to work from home.

“Our immediate focus is on supporting our employees to transition to remote work and providing them with the resources they need to continue providing services to the education sector.”

The department has given employees until the end of Monday, May 30 to move to work from home.

1,056 employees are expected to work remotely through September while long-term work arrangements are in place.

“We know this will be a challenge for some and we thank all of our employees for their resilience thus far and for their support during this transition.”

The ministry is seriously considering whether to compensate employees for the additional costs they incur from working from home.

The building’s seismic rating has been reduced after it was rated under new guidelines issued after the Canterbury and Kaikoura earthquakes.

Maturanga’s House on Bowen Street in Wellington / Mark Mitchell

It is the latest office building in the capital to be affected by a lower-than-expected seismic rating following new engineering assessments.

The award-winning Meridian Building on Wellington’s waterfront is an earthquake-prone building.

About 180 Meridian Energy employees are working from home as a precaution while finding alternative office space.

NZME staff in Wellington were also sent home after it was found that the building they were working in had a lower-than-expected earthquake rating.

About 1,000 Inland Revenue employees found themselves in the same situation last year when an earthquake threat was discovered at Asteron House. They have since been temporarily moved through several buildings in the city while the remediation is in progress.

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