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2. The value of the phased 4.9% increase over two years, as
reflected in the estimated level of Budget supplementation is as follows:
• $7.4m in 1992/93 (part year effect), made up of;
- the initial 2% pay adjustment applicable to all staff groups covered by the agreement (effective 17 December 1992)
- the introduction of a Senior Officer Allowance effective from that same date, and performance pay for the Senior Officer group which is payable during 1992/93. There is also an additional superannuation liability in relation to performance payments made to Senior Officers included in the above figure
- the first of the two "economic" adjustments of 1.4% applicable to all staff groups covered by the agreement (estimated cost of $3.7m per annum, effective 11 March 1993).
• $12.9m in 1993/94 and $13.0m in 1994/95. These figures include the above elements, performance pay for the Senior Executive Service, which is payable after June 1993, and the second of the two "economic" adjustments of 1.5% applicable to all staff .groups covered by the agreement (estimated cost of $4m per annum, effective 11 March 1994).
3. The initial 2% productivity pay adjustment will be supplemented
fully only over the first 12 months of the Agreement and then to the
extent of 50% over the second 12 months. From that point it will cease
to be supplemented at all and all costs must be off-set fully by the
Service-wide efficiency measures agreed upon. Hence the savings, in
dollars and cents, will at least equate to the value of the 2%o adjustment
which is estimated at $5.6m per annum. Any local productivity
measures further, agreed must be in addition to this, and hence deliver
quite separate efficiencies.
4. The measures to achieve productivity increases set out in the
Agreement include a range of -sector-wide reform measures which are
immediately available to be used. Advice has already issued to agencies
on the streamlining of redeployment and redundancy arrangements,
and the greater use of Joint Selection Committees for bulk selection
exercises. Another sector-wide improvement which the Agreement
delivers involves a number of changes in relation to part-time
employment, including a doubling of the available proportion of part
time positions in the area of coverage of the Public Sector Union, and a
joint review of the usage and the need for permanent part-time work in
the physical and technical grades. Other agreed changes relate to
accelerated inefficiency procedures, strategies to reduce absenteeism by
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