Eric Abetz, has bound agencies up in dozens of pages of red tape, the essence of which is that remuneration increases must be offset by genuine productivity gains – and the minister says these offsets must be 100 per cent. Piling on the stupidity, Abetzs rules say that arbitrary reductions in staffing are not considered genuine productivity gains even though arbitrary staff reductions may well be a significant source of productivity improvement Abetz seems hell-bent on continuing to defraud the system, if whats going on in his Employment Department is anything to go by Abetz, the ADF and the Defence Force Remuneration Tribunal have also fluffed, in more ways than one, pay increases for the military Productivity is about how many widgets (or whatever) can be made in an hour. Fooling around with conditions of employment or imposing longer working hours is worse than irrelevant to productivity. Reducing employment conditions will not make staff work harder or smarter and so produce more per hour. Flogging reduces productivity. The same is so with longer working hours because growing tiredness means fewer widgets will be produced in later hours of the work day than in earlier hours. What does the minister think hes up to with all his cack-handed dissimulation? The only end seems to be reducing government spending from what rational policy might require so that he can make a contribution to fixing a debt and deficit disaster that doesnt exist So, what can Abetz do? There is no sign Abetz will take this sensible approach the government is attacking employment conditions and rights for pay increases of between 0 and 1 per cent, and that usually mild-mannered staff are angry. Pointing to a 95 per cent vote in favour of protected industrial action in the Department of Human Services, Flood says the government is provoking large-scale industrial action and Abetz is apparently refusing to meet the union to see if that somehow might be avoided And spare a thought for other citizens who are having the productivity of Commonwealth organisations put at serious risk by the governments ludicrous policies
Posted on: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 08:54:44 +0000
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