The public service cuts through possible voluntary layoffs, says James Paterson
A coalition government would offer voluntary layoffs to public employees to speed up his plan to reduce the bureaucracy staff, the party spokesman James Paterson revealed for the first time on Friday morning.
The latest change to the public service policy of the opposition comes days later He moved away from his plan to cut 41,000 jobs Instead he said that the coalition would be based on a natural attrition and a freezing of hires to obtain a possible $ 7 billion a year of savings.
The spokesman for the coalition campaign James Paterson said that public employees could get the payments to be left.Credit: Alex Ellinghausen
These savings are fundamental for the coalition plan for the management of the federal budget and the payment of the expenditure promised during the election campaign, as more than $ 9 billion to medicateBut the opposition was under pressure on the details.
The introduction of voluntary layoffs would allow the coalition to direct the waste areas and reduce the numbers faster, but also the government saddle with the cost of payments from public employees. Paterson did not specify how many layoffs would have been offered or in which parts of the public service.
“We will have the size of the Australian public service and we will reduce the numbers to the levels that were three years ago through natural friction and voluntary layoffs,” Paterson said on ABC Radio National.
The radio guest Sally Sara interrupted to say that politics had changed along the road, to which Paterson replied: “No, it was not”.
“Our policy is always based on natural friction and voluntary layoffs. Here are our costs on. Here are what we have sought advice from the PBO (parliamentary budget office), and this is why we will get the savings, once ripe, of $ 7 billion per year.
“What we said very clearly is that the first -line service roles will be exempt, as well as defense and national security”.
But the national leader David Littleproud, in a radio interview with Triple m last August, said: “The first thing we will do is to fire those 36,000 public employees in Canberra, is worth $ 24 billion”.
