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Almost one in 10 staff from families, housing department to be sacked (www.theage.com.au)

submitted 3 years ago by LineNoise@kbin.social to c/melbourne@aussie.zone

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The public sector union has warned Victorian child protection workers will be unable to effectively do their jobs if 400 positions are cut in mass redundancies.

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[–] LineNoise@kbin.social [S] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Whilst this department has been a mess for years it's difficult to see that staffing cuts on this scale will be any improvement without major cultural and procedural changes being made first.

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[–] Creazle@lemmy.world 6 points 3 years ago

What do you mean improvement? This is part of the government wide cost cutting that has been going on since the pandemic lockdowns.

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[–] Amputret@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Does this mean 9 in 10 staff are vat-grown clones? Don't know why the hell that would justify firing the entire housing department, though.