Union blasts pending move to 'modernise' APS workforce


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A push to “modernise” the government’s workforce with a strategy formed by the public service commission has drawn fire from the main public sector union, which has called it a front for more insecure work and contractors.


Budget papers in May revealed the Coalition had tasked the Australian Public Service Commission with forming a strategy to grow staff movements between agencies, and the private sector. The government will consider ways to “maximise flexibility” under the plan.


The move coincides with an independent review of the federal bureaucracy, commissioned by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and led by former Telstra chief executive David Thodey, that may lead to its biggest overhaul in more than 40 years.


Community and Public Sector Union national secretary Nadine Flood said the move for a workforce strategy continued a Coalition government attack on agencies and public servants.


Community and Public Sector Union national secretary Nadine Flood says a plan for a workforce strategy in the public service is a front for more insecure jobs.

Community and Public Sector Union national secretary Nadine Flood says a plan for a “workforce strategy” in the public service is a front for more insecure jobs.


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“Public sector workers know all too well that when the government talks about maximising ‘flexibility’, that means replacing their permanent, quality jobs with inferior, insecure, lower paid work that costs the government more and delivers less through contractors, consultants and labour hire,” she said.


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