South Australian Budget 2013: Redundancy packages slashed
The generous redundancy packages offered to public servants who volunteer to go will be cut by more than half from July next year, under measures announced in today’s South Australian Budget.
The payments were previously calculated at 20 weeks pay, plus three weeks for every year of service to a maximum of 116 weeks
That payment will now be capped at 52 weeks salary.
Premier and Treasurer Jay Weatherill said he was happy to give public servants a year to make their decision, but after that, compulsory redundancies could be used to push out unproductive workers who had been “working the redeployment systems for years”.
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It’s a reference to the famed “departure lounges” where public servants are put behind desks with little to do while their superiors work out ways to lever them out.
They’ve got a year to take the money, or face the chop.
More Budget Coverage:
- The Budget in Detail
- The Ratings Agency Verdict
- Kevin Naughton’s Analysis: Weatherill Makes Do
- David Washington: The Political Strategy Behind the Budget
See the full budget papers here.
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