Govt pitches 3 per cent public service wage rise, unions say workers will leave the NT
A proposed three per cent pay rise for all public servants by the Finocchiaro Government was describ
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If this was the private sector they would have declared bankruptcy a long time ago. Our politicians should be made personally liable for trading while insolvent. The public service needs to be told that their current salaries, let alone future pay rises, are completely unsustainable.
1. Why is Northern Territory public service non executive employment permanency (secure employment) rate only at 71.5 per cent when in the Commonwealth Public Service, employment permanency is at 91.8 per cent?
2. Why are around one in every three non executive employees in the Northern Territory public service in fixed term / casual non permanency employment positions?
3. Did over 12,000 Northern Territory public servants finish up their employment in the NT public service over the last two years?
4. Is the turn over rate and recruitment rate of new employees every year high in the NT public service?
5. What are the number of individual independent contractors on ABNs hired by the NT public service?
6. What are the number of employees in the NT public service employed by external labour hire firms?
7. Does the NT public service annual wages bill of $3.1 billion a year include the expenditure of individual independent contractors on ABNs and employees employed by external labour hire firms?
7. Are these factors contributing to the high ballooning costs in NT public service expenditures and contributing to low and stagnating NT population growth and low and stagnating economic activity in the Northern Territory?
8. Will this new NT CLP Government now address these human resources management practices in the Northern Territory public service –
a. By increasing non executive employment permanency to no less than 90 per cent.
b. That a genuine efficiency review of the actual number of individual independent contractors on ABNs that are needed is conducted.
c. That a genuine efficiency review of employees employed by external labour hire firms that are needed is also conducted.
This is so that efficiencies and real savings can be made and turn over rates in the NT public service employment numbers can be stabilised.
The public service has ballooned under Labor. We have high paid commissioners for everything. Senior public service positions are on contracts for a reason. Perform or piss off. They are the ones that are spending the money.
Many of them are also the ones driving away the skilled workforce with their incompetence and poor management style. I couldn’t put up with the managers in my division so left and took nearly two decades of experience with me.
How many public servants do we really need to look after the miniscule population of the NT??
1/3 Of What we have now!
You have to work in the NTPS to see the waste, the nepotism and the cronyism.
The immense resources wasted on failed mini projects the public will never hear about.
The Public Service is bloated to keep the private industry going!
The Treasury boffins tell the Treasurer if you sack 1000 public servants you will cause a Recession.
Territorian’s would prefer a Recession to All Out Bankruptcy at (approaching) $15 Billion Government Debt for Economic Backwater that houses 255,000 Territorians who a large percentage don’t even work.