Look, we know that it is a big ask for the public servant, but we’re saying to every single one of the 410,000 public service working for the New South Wales Government – we’ve said to each and every one of them, you will have a job guarantee for the next 12 months.
And all we’re asking you to do is not take a pay rise for the next 12 months.
As I mentioned earlier, we literally have hundreds of people who have left the workforce.
In 90% of the population that don’t work for the New South Wales public service, 221,000 of those people lost their jobs in April.
We literally have hundreds and hundreds of thousands of others, and I think we’re getting sop updated figures today, who are on Jobkeeper. Once Jobkeeper runs out, we don’t know how many of those employees will stay employed and how many will join the Centrelink queues.
And it’s a very difficult time. None of us could have foreshadowed horrific bushfire seasons, storms, deep drought and a pandemic. I don’t think that any one of us could have foreseen that and that’s why we need to take decisions which are not decisions we’d usually take.
Not decisions we are happy to take, but that we have to take. That’s why we’re doing what we have to do. We’re thinking and looking to the future, because literally, by the end of the year, I shudder to think how many people in New South Wales will be without a job.
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