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30/12/17
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Originally posted by Dave R
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Alternative jobs don't exist for most displaced public servants and as time passes even less jobs will be there.
The private sector is automating at a rapid pace and will not be hiring so many new employees in the future.
The public service is going down the same track and will have less employees as time goes on.
Computers do a lot of PS work now and I don't think there are many paper shufflers left.
Most public servants today are frontline staff, nurses, police, ambos, teachers, child safety officers, licencing officers, court officials, council workers maintaining roads, parks and gardens, immigration assessors, passport issuers, national parks rangers, the armed forces, Centrelink staff etc etc etc. This belief I see pushed here that public servants are shiny arsed paper shufflers that we would be better off without is wrong.
The over regulation we suffer in this country is the result of laws and regulations introduced by our parliaments. Excessive regulation and red tape can only be removed by our politicians voting to do so in our parliaments.
Dave R.
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No one wants to see front line workers cut, it's all the extra's, the middle managers and those who's jobs finished long ago who're just sitting around getting paid to do nothing
There are plenty of these stories around. Public servants are an untouchable group in a lot of cases and govts(both sides, although probably less from the coalition) refuse to or can't sack them once their job is done.
http://www.news.com.au/national/pub...s/news-story/04acdc628946358c1182301b8512ca67
A STATE Government has handed almost 150 public servants a bonus of $10,000 each to quit and get a real job.
The $1.4 million worth of handouts are on top of their usual entitlements.
Astonishingly, a further 250 "unattached" public servants - some being paid $100,000 a year to do nothing - have knocked back NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell's generous $10,000 payout offer.
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