Page 1928 - Week 07 - Tuesday, 14 June 1994
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Along with what was then ACOA, I was involved in cross-union and cross-government negotiations to secure the separation of that service. As Mr De Domenico will recall, when we were in the Northern Territory having a look at their public service, great concern was expressed by the staff of the Northern Territory, both those who had continued as employees from the 1970s and those who had been recruited into the service, about all of the different levels of entitlements and conditions. There were clear indications that great concern or great angst was being caused by one employee to another because of the myriad of different conditions which needed to be addressed. From the bureaucratic point of view, it was cumbersome.
Mr De Domenico, we have said that in our legislation we are not prepared to repeat the mistakes of the past, such as those that were made in the separation of the Northern Territory Public Service. We have taken on board the paramount questions to ensure that on day one no employees of the ACT Government Service are disadvantaged vis-a-vis their entitlements on the last day of the existence of the old service. That is what we have achieved.
Debate interrupted.
ADJOURNMENT
MADAM SPEAKER: Order! It being 9.30 pm, I propose the question:
That the Assembly do now adjourn.
Mr Berry: I require the question to be put forthwith without debate.
Question resolved in the negative.
PUBLIC SECTOR MANAGEMENT BILL 1994
[COGNATE REPORT AND BILL:
ESTABLISHMENT OF AN A.C.T. PUBLIC SERVICE -
SELECT COMMITTEE - REPORT
PUBLIC SECTOR MANAGEMENT (CONSEQUENTIAL AND
TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) BILL 1994]
Debate resumed.
MR LAMONT: Madam Speaker, on day one we will have a public service that has the proper legislative base. On day one we will have within our public service provisions which will guarantee that we treat our employees singularly across the service and that we provide them with similarity and consistency of employment opportunity into the future so that we do not end up, as the Northern Territory Public Service has, with a hotchpotch of employment practices, administrative nightmares and, quite frankly, inefficiency.
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