Senate broadside over bogged negotiations.
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Row over Human Services call centre “underclass”
Department and CPSU at loggerheads
Medicare outsourcing could cost 20,000 jobs: CPSU
Accusations fly over market testing
CPSU says 500 more jobs could go from Human Services
DHS rules out more cuts for FY 2014-15, points to natural attrition.
Fresh accusations fly over APS bargaining, dilution of redundancy conditions
CPSU ratchets-up pressure on preservation of payouts
Budget APS redundancies just the start of new outsourcing jobs cull
Confirmed 16,500 sackings just the start of new wave sell-offs and dispatch of jobs to industry.
Warning of surge in customer aggression caused by 6,000 APS job cuts
Survey of 5,800 government staff reveals blowouts in client waiting times, mistakes and chronic understaffing is hitting frontline services.
Commission of Audit cuts could nuke 25,000 public service jobs
Alarm bells are ringing in both the bureaucracy and and unions that the National Commission of Audit’s figure of 15,000 job losses is badly understated when measured against the real scope of recommended cuts and outsourcing.
APS industrial action looms over Abbott’s first term
The public service union is digging in for a long and protracted high stakes battle to ensure its survival well beyond the current Prime Minister and the next election.
Treasury head issues warning over scale of APS cuts
Australia’s number-cruncher-in-chief has cautioned expectations around cuts and services are unsustainable and that any attempts to think smarter or differently prioritising resources are being crowded out.