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