Queensland Public Service Hiring Freeze
. Queensland political reporter 948PM May 4 2020 43 Comments Queensland Treasurer Jackie Trad has ordered a hiring freeze for the states public service but headhunted former Labor MP Mike Kaiser to help respond to the coronavirus jobs crisis. Respected Queensland economist Gene Tunny strongly backed the.
Talks were taking place for a rise in public servant wages with over 220000 people looking at a 25 percent wage increase. Asked on Sunday when Queenslands public service employment cap introduced in response to the COVID economic downturn would be removed he said he would announce all of our positions on the public service in the Budget but that statistics would show the Government had been growing the frontline. Today the newspaper reported that the United Voice union representing thousands of essential workers in health aged care education and cleaning had received a commitment that.
The Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszcuk has put impending pay rises for the public sector on hold after severe backlash from businesses around the state.
Well done to the Courier-Mails Steven Wardill for his scoop on the Queensland public service hiring freeze in todays paper. The Palaszczuk Cabinet has agreed to end weeks of speculation about a proposed public service wage freeze by introducing special legislation into Parliament this week. Because outside recruitment was strictly limited under the government-directed freeze which was in place from late 2013 until the middle of this year many employees lacking the full skill set were placed in acting roles says. Aunewsqueenslandqueenslan d-governmentqld-public-serv ice-hiring-freeze-to-rein-in -budgetnews-story0a72aa427339c7b871be8e6e2d270cd2 indicating an upcoming hiring ban on recruitment in Queensland.
