Category: Jobs

Hardball tactics and a paucity of detailed information is taking its psychological toll on public servants and the clients they are required to serve.

CPSU warns Commission of Audit, government of consequences of mass exodus.

The O’Farrell government has instigated a shake-up of its key back-office support body ServiceFirst by inviting the private sector to come up with a new model to reduce operating costs.

A casting call for a new head of property development in the West has cast a spotlight on the renewed battle to lay claim to the real centre of Sydney.

The public service union is digging in for drawn out battle over entitlements after the government opened bidding with the offer of a wage freeze.

Bluster over APS industrial negotiations and pay rises has officially hit fever pitch after the government calculated pay rises in terms of job cuts.

Public submissions normally collated and published online by the government have been dispensed with before the Budget.

Eric Abetz and Tony Abbott have dispensed with the niceties in the renegotiation of the APS’s main industrial instrument warning bureaucrats to either agree to a pay freeze or cop a haircut on leave entitlements.

Federal public servants and their union are gearing up for a once in a generation battle over entitlements, conditions and the future of the public service.

The Department of Finance is still mandating the purchase of locally made cars even though Toyota, Holden and Ford have all pulled the plug on production.