Page 2103 - Week 06 - Wednesday, 5 June 2019

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The Assembly voted—

Amendment agreed to.

Original question, as amended, resolved in the affirmative.

Employment—job security

MS CODY (Murrumbidgee) (11.48): I move:

That this Assembly:

(1) notes:

(a) the policy of the Liberal Party to cut $1.5 billion and thousands of jobs from the Federal Public Service in Canberra; and

(b) the policy of the National Party to transfer Federal Public Service jobs away from Canberra;

(2) also notes:

(a) concerns expressed by the Reserve Bank and leading economists about the short-term outlook for the Australian economy;

(b) the ongoing low rate of wage growth; and

(c) that, although the ACT still has the lowest unemployment rate of any jurisdiction, unemployment continues to rise in some jurisdictions;

(3) also notes that ACT Labor has fulfilled its election commitment to:

(a) protect ACT Public Service jobs;

(b) maintain public service levels to ensure workloads are manageable; and

(c) maintain real public service wages;

(4) further notes that the ACT Budget is:

(a) delivering job security for City Services workers by progressively converting temporary and contract staff to permanent employees;

(b) delivering better job security and working conditions for our hard-working school cleaners by transitioning externally contracted school cleaning services to a Territory-run service by establishing a cleaning workforce within the Education Directorate;

(c) supporting more ACT Government jobs by reviewing the use of casual and temporary employment across Directorates to identify roles or work currently being done by temporary staff that can be transitioned to secure, permanent roles over time;

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