Political staffers reject lowball pay offer on Christmas Eve
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Political staffers reject lowball pay offer on Christmas Eve
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Political staffers have emphatically voted down a pay offer of between zero and less than 2 per cent increase, the first time in 13 years they have rejected an enterprise agreement.
Three in five staff who voted in the ballot in the week before Christmas rejected it.
Finance Minister Simon Birmingham has reported a pay offer was voted down by politicians staff.
Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
The Finance Department had offered a 1.7 per cent pay increase for electorate officers and assistants, 0.85 per cent for advisers, both coming in after six months, and no pay rise for a year for senior advisers and chiefs of staff. It is the first agreement proposed under the government s new bargaining policy to link public service pay to private sector wa