
Senior staffers furious they face five years without a pay rise
Public servants are getting a pay rise and now politicians are too. Between those groups, however, senior officers say they have been left behind – and they’re angry about it.
Public servants are getting a pay rise and now politicians are too. Between those groups, however, senior officers say they have been left behind – and they’re angry about it.
Christian Porter and Linda Reynolds have been given new roles in cabinet after Prime Minister Scott Morrison made changes to his frontbench team.
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Permanent part-time employees could soon be able to negotiate extra hours at their usual rate of pay.
More than 200,000 Queensland public servants, including those whose enterprise bargaining agreements were not finalised received a $1250 bonus payment, despite the imposition of a pay freeze.
Federal Labor backs the Morrison Government’s extension of the JobKeeper wage subsidy but it is wary of its demands to extend the industrial relations flexibility that went with the initial package.
The Palaszczuk Government is under pressure to clarify its intentions for wage freezes only weeks before negotiated pay rises are due to take effect.