Efforts to offset conditions against pay continue. The APSC continues its pursuit of a deal that trades away entitlements for consistency.
As many as 33,464 employees at Services Australia stand to lose three days of annual leave under the Australian Public Service Commission’s attempt to standardise leave entitlements across the Australian Public Service contained in the government’s first offer, known as the “Preliminary Commonwealth position — common clause”.
As the APSC seeks to streamline and standardise leave entitlements across the federal bureaucracy, Services Australia, now under the machinery-of-government wing of the Department of Finance, has emerged as the biggest potential loser under the audacious bid to prune back leave in the current bargaining process.