1. Friday 27 February 2009
SKYCITY Starlight Symphony raises more than $50,000 for
Make-a-Wish
The weather cleared just in time for Saturday
night’s SKYCITY Starlight Symphony, with
around 90,000 people donating more than
$50,000 for our chosen charity, Make-A-Wish
New Zealand.
The evening was threatened by poor weather
on Friday and showers throughout the day on
Saturday, but this didn’t stop a huge crowd
turning up.
Picnickers were out in full force to watch
wonderful performances by top musical talents
from throughout Australasia.
Make-A-Wish New Zealand’s CEO, Scott
Simpson, says the money raised at this year’s
SKYCITY Starlight Symphony will go a long way
to help ensure Kiwi Kids with life-threatening
illnesses have their cherished wish granted.
“Everyone who contributed at the Symphony
can feel very proud that they have shared in
the power of a wish and ensured dreams will
come true for seriously ill children.” MCs Wendy Petrie and Mark Sainsbury with headline
act Brooke Fraser
Round the Bays 2009 – thanks to all those who registered Employee of the Week
for this year’s Round the Bays. This year we had a great response,
with a total of 335 people representing SKYCITY on race day. Keep an HR Analyst Selwyn Thomas has been
eye out in Wildcard and on the noticeboards for details about nominated for his commitment to providing
collection of race packs and t-shirts. accurate and timely information to our
business.
Social Club Round the Bays get together Selwyn’s job involves everything from
reporting on trends in people turnover and
The Social Club will be having a sausage labour performance, to providing data to
sizzle and cold drinks at Glover Park Statistics NZ, the Australasian Casino
following this year’s Round the Bays. If Association and others to compare our
you’d like to come along please bring a labour trends against our peers, to ad hoc
picnic or salad to be shared with your reporting for managers across the business
workmates. All those who wish to do this when they want to know how their people
can meet in the Nelson St staff carpark at are doing.
8.00am on race day (Sunday 15 March)
and your food will be delivered to Glover Selwyn consistently provides top quality
Park for you. information to help us identify where we
can improve. Thanks for your hard work
We’re also looking for entertainers! If you can sing, dance or show off and commitment to the success of our
your other talents please call Social Club President Rebecca Semu on business, Selwyn – you are our Employee
021 029 60658. See you there! of the Week.

2. In Brief
Parking Services update – The
Employee Relations Update – Policies and Nelson St staff car park is a back-of-house
area and as such it is everyone’s
Processes responsibility to keep it clean and tidy.
SKYCITY is committed to providing a fair and consistent working Please don’t leave your rubbish in the car
environment for all employees. Policies and Processes help us achieve park – be a tidy and considerate
our goals and objectives, they are aligned to our strategy, vision, mission workmate. Also a reminder, recharge and
and values and provide the fundamental rules, conventions and protocols deduction car park cards have expiry
that employees are required to adhere to at SKYCITY. dates either written on them or
programmed into them. Contact the
You can view the HR policies and processes on the HR portal of the Parking Services supervisor on x6552 or
Intranet. We've recently added the following new policies - Flexible visit the office on P2 in the main car park
Working Arrangements, Immigration and Table Games - Dealers & for further information.
Supervisors to speak English. We have also updated the Disciplinary and
Dismissal policy. SKYCITY Eco pages – Check out
the newest addition to the intranet - the
Please take the time to review and make yourself aware of these. If you SKYCITY Eco pages. Here you can find
have any questions on SKYCITY policies or processes please talk to your information about SKYCITY's environment
manager or HR representative. strategy and policy, and interact with
other staff to create an effective 'green'
working environment. View the SKYCITY
Eco pages by clicking on the Environment
Wildcard competition tab on the top right-hand corner of the
intranet homepage.
This week we have TEN double passes for SKYCITY Cinemas to give
away. Fill out this entry form and drop it into the Wildcard dropbox Touch Teams results – Our two
on 24~7 Ave or email Wildcard@skycity.co.nz by 9am, Thursday 5 touch rugby teams went head-to-head this
March. week, with SKYCITY CYU dominating the
Patriots by eight points to one.
Name:
Property Services update –
Employee ID: You may have noticed that every Friday
Department: there is a painter working on the ground
floor and level one back-of-house
Contact phone number: corridors. This is an ongoing project by
Question: On what date can you meet the Blues? Property Services to keep our work
environment clean and fresh. Next time
Answer: you see the Property Services painter,
give him a smile in acknowledgement of
his work towards making back-of-house a
nicer place to work.
Meet the Blues – 11am, Sunday 8 March, SKYCITY Atrium. Meet Winners – SKYCITY Cinemas
your favourite Super 14 team and get your free autographed posters
between 11am and midday next Sunday. There will be giveaways and passes
spot prizes up for grabs. The SKYCITY Cheer Team, Scotty Sky Tower, Congratulations to all the winners of last
Rainbow and Blue Beard will also be there to entertain. Bring along our week’s competition. You can pick up your
family and friends to join in the fun! prizes from the team at Wardrobe.
Tony Meek, IT
Michelle Jensen, Finance
Ronald Loli, Security
Edwin Naidu, HR
Cecelia Makaea, Call Centre
Sue Manu, Table Games
Daniel Young, Kitchen Operations
Mata Pere, Property Services
Xandrea Mercado, Gaming Machines
Pamela Tuitoga, Cleaning Services
State of Play Coming Soon
State of Play will take place on Wednesday
18 March at 10.30am, 12.30pm and
6.30pm in the Convention Centre. The
sessions will each run for one hour. More
information on how you can ask your
questions coming soon.