The Labour Party believes the changing workplace is one of the biggest issues facing New Zealand.

The Labour Party has laid out its plan to ensure the security of jobs in a rapidly changing workplace.

Announced at the Future of Work conference in Auckland on Wednesday, the policy points have been developed by a commission set up by the party a year ago.

Commission chairman Grant Robertson said the issue had resonated with workers, business and the wider public.

PHIL WALTER/GETTY IMAGES Labour Party leader Andrew Little and half of the party's caucus were present at the conference.

The 10 points included ensuring access to technology, and accelerating technology in business.

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It also suggests getting rid of secondary tax and considering a limited trial of a universal basic income-type system, floated by Labour recently, in a town or region.

DAVID WHITE/FAIRFAX NZ Labour Party MP Grant Robertson is chairing the work project.

To provide support to workers it suggests strong and flexible social and income security support when workers lose their jobs and a training plan for every worker, including free and mandatory training for those who lose a job to help them develop new skills.

Providing three free years of post-school education from 2019 and forging partnerships between iwi, business and third parties to develop the Maori economy are also included.

The free education would be progressively rolled-out, with one year free from 2019, two years from 2022 and three years from 2025.

Robertson said the pace of technological change was moving at "warp speed" and posed a real risk of growing the inequality gap.

"The approach that we've taken with the Future of Work Commission is to turn inside out the way we approach policy.

"Ensuring we are prepared for the changing nature of work is one of the biggest tasks facing New Zealand.

"These 10 big ideas are an indication of the exciting outcomes that are possible in the future of work."

Conference keynote speaker Professor Robert B. Reich from the University of California praised Labour's proposal to provide free post-school education.

Reich, who was Secretary of Labour in the Clinton administration and has written several best-selling books, said the education system had failed to keep pace with the rate of technological displacement.

"If technology is able to provide everything, no-one will be able to afford anything."

Many jobs of the future would be "technician" jobs that maintained complex technology and the public needed to move past the thinking that everyone needed a university education.

He also slammed global companies who were able to dictate rules and avoid paying their fair share of tax in countries and described the TPPA as "atrocious" as it would strip countries of their rights.

"It's going to make it more and more difficult for democracies to decide on health and safety and environmental regulations."