色狼社区to FACS Secretary: You owe it to staff to fight for jobs
17 November 2016
色狼社区to FACS Secretary – You owe it to staff to fight for jobs – November 2016 (PDF version)
The 色狼社区has called on FACS Secretary, Michael Coutts-Trotter to stand up to NSW Treasury and fight for jobs in the face of NSW Government plans to privatise disability services and the management of some 18,000 public housing properties.
The move is expected to result in massive job losses in districts, and corporate and state-wide services.
In a letter to the Secretary, the 色狼社区emphasised the sheer scale of the Government鈥檚 job cuts warrants an approach designed to consolidate reorganisation processes, to maximise employment opportunities for ongoing staff and promote lateral transfers and redeployment across the agency.
To read a copy of the letter click HERE.
鈥淢ichael Coutts-Trotter must stand up for his staff, and the thousands who face unemployment and an uncertain future鈥, said 色狼社区Assistant General Secretary, Troy Wright.
鈥淜ey to managing this process fairly is ensuring that affected staff who wish to stay with FACS are given every opportunity to do so.鈥
鈥淭his means taking a consolidated, whole of agency approach to managing change.鈥
鈥淭he Secretary should implement an immediate freeze on external advertising and put in place measures to ensure current staff are considered against all suitable vacancies before external advertisement.鈥
鈥淎n expression of interest process in voluntary redundancy should be also be offered up front, so the agency knows which staff want to stay and which want to leave 鈥 and wherever possible match staff to their preference.鈥
鈥淔undamentally, what we鈥檙e seeing in Family and Community Services is a Coalition Government hell-bent on gutting public housing, disability and child protection services.鈥
鈥淧remier Baird desperately wants to privatise these critical public services so his mates at the big end of town can make a buck out of some of the most disadvantaged in our community,鈥 said Troy Wright.