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  • 6 weeks ago
More than 1,000 Victorian public servant jobs are being slashed under a state government plan to save billions of dollars. The cuts recommended in the long-awaited silver review are aimed at reigning in state debt. But the government's held off swinging the axe as brutally as recommended.

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00:00As health workers rallied outside Parliament demanding a pay rise
00:06When do we want it? When do we want it?
00:09The government was swinging the axe on the public service, slashing 1,000 jobs.
00:15Departments have been on notice. We have wanted efficiencies and savings since I became Treasurer.
00:20With just 21 days until Christmas, the Treasurer is acting on a report commissioned back in February.
00:26Top bureaucrat Helen Silver, tasked with finding efficiencies in the public service, delivered her recommendations back in June.
00:34The report recommended sacking 2,000 public servants to save $5 billion.
00:40But the government says it can save $4 billion with half as many job cuts.
00:45We have a situation where we have too many executives, too many in the top of the range,
00:51and not enough people, not enough entry level positions and graduate positions.
00:55As government employee numbers have risen, so too have costs, up $20 billion over the past decade.
01:03This state only works because public servants work. Victoria works because we do.
01:08A third of the jobs being cut are executives, saving $359 million over four years.
01:14Also getting dumped or merged 29 public entities like VicHealth and Sustainability Victoria.
01:21Everyone will have been notified by this morning.
01:24It's been an anxious wait for the state's 315,000 public sector workers anticipating today's announcement.
01:31While there's recognition, particularly from the unions, the cuts could have been worse,
01:35many will now be facing a tough, festive season.
01:37Many will now be facing a tough, festive season.
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