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PS Wages Arbitration

CPSU Submits Our Evidence.  ON PAY - para 58 onwards.  CPSU proposes that the determination order include the following wages increases; 3.7% from 1 October 2011, 3.25% from 1 October 2012, 3% from 1 February 2013, 3% from 1 October 2013, 3% from 1 February 2014, and 3% from 1 October 2014.  The first two increases reflect a maintenance of real wages since the period of the last wages increase in October 2010, and are consistent with Victoria’s

May Day Jobs Massacre

The means removed from 4,200 workers to run their lives .

The Government intends to cut a further 600 jobs on top of the 3,600 already announced making a total of 4,200 jobs to go by 2014.  This number is only mentioned in BP1 – the Treasurer’s speech, page 3.

In the budget lock-up, DTF could not provide any information about where the cuts would come from, nor how that number was arrived at.