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The public sector union has blasted the state government over its handling of job cuts in the new building Tasmania department. Minister Kerry Vincent says the state is on the right path as more information about the department's new structure is released. But workers say there's still confusion about which staff are losing their jobs.

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00:02After 15 years in the department now known as Building Tasmania, CPSU Delegate Tanya
00:08says she's never seen so much distress in her workplace.
00:12Devastated is an understatement. There is a great deal of concern about what that future holds.
00:20111 employees have already taken voluntary redundancies. About 150 more jobs are going.
00:27It's really distressing to be supporting members who are being given this devastating news and still facing weeks of uncertainty.
00:38The Public Sector Union accusing the government of drip feeding information about exactly which jobs will be cut.
00:45Staff had been told more information would arrive today.
00:48What they received was around 80 organisational charts showing the department's new structure,
00:55but not a firm list of who was going. Consultation is now open for two weeks.
01:02It's going to take many hours to actually work out what is happening here and again what we see is
01:07just a lack of clarity.
01:08I ask everybody to keep an open mind to what we are trying to achieve here and work through it
01:14with us.
01:14The Minister's confidence slashing jobs is the right path.
01:17We work very hard to make sure and adjust what we do as we need to do it on a
01:22daily basis and that's part of governing.
01:24With $6 billion of debt, the government needs to repair the budget and says spending cuts is the best way.
01:31These job cuts won't be the last. The government's eyeing off a total reduction of 1,700 jobs by 2030.
01:39It would be far more sensible to make big corporations, to make mining companies, to make salmon companies,
01:44to make the gambling companies pay their fair share than to make public servants, you know, cop it in the
01:50neck.
01:52If cuts are the way, the Greens say the billion dollar stadium spend might be the place to start.
01:58I can't force this work because they are the most spas.
01:58I can't force you on the ground so I don't put them on the ground except for their business i
01:59am pumped because it is in много.
01:59I'm trying to take a hard time. It's important to make public servants and understand how they do that and
01:59know not that.
01:59It took me a moment to 1509 s to 24 minutes before they didn't put all sorts of slackness to
02:00get.
02:00So just as hearing is-called simple when I were very visual and I was thinking about it.
02:00I'm really anxious to have simple enough elements to build thataba on the ground.
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