NDIS to Loose Significant Staff under new budget
For those of us in the APS who didn’t notice that the public Service was not included in the media statement of tonight’s budget broadcast I did some digging in the budget paper and found this section detailing a 667 person reduction of APS employees in the NDIS. We have not been briefed as to who will be affected if that been external or internal staff , selected via performance, voluntary redundancy or attrition or another metric. There is currently a unofficial freeze on all but a few jobs and even if it’s just external workers hire jobs it’s extra work for the insourced staff where our planners are under increased pressure to hit KPI’s that even if we did meet we don’t have the staff to keep up with demand meaning a even higher turn over and burn out for our staff. This is all during a EBA bargaining year which the Government has not engaged in yet with the CPSU. This to me tells abit about the EBA going forward and I am concerned… what do you think am I right reading this budget and extrapolating between the lines?
Edited: To correct some spelling/grammar