Attachment 1: NILS Report Public Sector Pay and Productivity – NILS Brief Report to the CPSU Public sector pay and productivity Keith Hancock Josh Healy Kostas Mavromaras Peter Sloane Zhang Wei 8 June 2011 National Institute of Labour Studies Flinders University Adelaide PUBLIC SECTOR SALARIES AND PRODUCTIVITY The Victorian Branch of the CPSU, in bargaining for a new agreement with the State government, is confronted with the government’s insistence that wage increases will be 2.5 per cent. Additional increases are available approved productivity savings result in ‘where real bankable cost savings’. The criterion for the additional wage increases does not refer to increases’, but to savings’. This seems to imply that steps taken by ‘productivity ‘productivity employees to enhance the quantity and standard of the services provided would not of themselves justify any recognition by higher rewards. That is consistent with the requirement of bankable cost savings’. ‘real State governments, such as the New South Wales government, have also set a limit of 2.5 per cent on available pay rises.
Attachment 1: NILS Report – Public Sector Pay and Productivity NILS Brief Report to the CPSU Public sector pay and productivity Keith Hancock Josh Healy Kostas Mavromaras Peter Sloane Zhang Wei 8 June 2011 National Institute of Labour Studies Flinders University Adelaide PUBLIC SECTOR SALARIES AND PRODUCTIVITY The Victorian Branch of the CPSU, in bargaining for a new agreement with the State government, is confronted with the government’s insistence that wage increases will be 2.5 per cent. Additional increases are available ‘where approved productivity savings result in real bankable cost savings’. The criterion for the additional wage increases does not refer to ‘productivity increases’, but to ‘productivity savings’. This seems to imply that steps taken by employees to enhance the quantity and standard of the services provided would not of themselves justify any recognition by higher rewards. That is consistent with the requirement of ‘real bankable cost savings’. State governments, such as the New South Wales government, have also set a limit of 2.5 per cent on available pay rises.
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