Dutton downloads controversial plans to ax bureaucrats and end up working from home
“The coalition has never had a policy that affects flexible work in the private sector. This is a lie of the job, and it is a shame that the work has invented a frightening campaign aimed at women.”
Hume said that the coalition no longer imposes a minimum number of days that public employees should work in the office, admitting that “many professional men and women in the Commonwealth public service are benefiting from flexible work agreements”.
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Dutton had already found his flexible working policy, stating that the rules would only apply to Canberra workers rather than tens of thousands who live in key voters throughout the country.
Another abandoned element of the Dutton agenda was the commitment to reconstruct the workforce of the public service of 41,000 people – the number of bureaucrats hired by the Albanian government.
It was not clear where Dutton and his treasurer Shadow Angus Taylor had planned to reduce the numbers, since only a quarter of the public employees hired since the work risen to power was employed in Canberra.
The uncertainty on what works should be fed in the key attack line of Labor that Dutton would have “cut everything except taxes”, which the government has connected to the much more radical cuts to government services in the United States under the auspices of the Department of Efficiency of the Government of Elon Musk.
Dutton gave the Senator of the citizens of the Northern Territory Jacinta Nampijinpa the new government’s efficiency portfolio in his remote Frontbench on January 25, but repeatedly denied any link with the United States department under Musk.
Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, to whom the government’s efficiency portfolio was given, denies that he was inspired by Elon Musk. Credit: And PED
In the most concrete observations to date on the public service plans of the coalition, Hume has confirmed that the reduction would not have involved forced layoffs, instead they come from a mix of hiring locking and natural friction for five years.
In the last data, the attrition rates slowed down by 5 % in the year of 2023-24 since about 11,000 left the Australian public service and another 30,000 were hired.
Reducing the government’s size is essential for the capacity of the coalition to find enough budget savings to allow him to say that he will spend less than work and keep inflation.
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Dutton declared in his budget speech in advance that cutting 41,000 workers over time would lead to “saving $ 7 billion a year”.
But this savings are in question because the coalition confirmed that the figure of $ 7 billion was the annual saving for the fifth year of politics, with minor savings not specified in previous years. The complete detail will be provided in costs closest to the elections on May 3.
