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More Pain for PS in Budget

More pain is coming for public sector employees as departmental expenditure is squeezed further because the State Government wants to build a road the State Budget revealed this week.  Karen Batt said that adding to the cut in Departmental spending is a useless budgetary tool because it's fiscally lazy and it becomes a backhanded job cut.  Departments are well versed at manipulating this edict and programs suffer as vacancies remain unfilled.  The end result is the VPS just fills with labour hire where Departments can hide this spend.  Outlays overall will actually increase.  The Treasurer

ES WIN Pay Rises plus Sign on Bonus

Our Ed Support staff and teachers dispute is over with the State Government agreeing yesterday to increase wages for Education Support staff to between 12 per cent and 17.1 per cent over the life of the new agreement. The new proposed Agreement will operate until October 2016. All ES staff will also receive a $1,000 bonus, pro rata for part time staff, paid when the new agreement is registered by Fair Work Australia.

** One Agreement **