Almost one in 10 staff from families, housing department to be sacked

https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/almost-one-in-10-staff-from-families-housing-department-to-be-sacked-20230907-p5e2o0.html

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 · 6 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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.

Creazle@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y

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

Amputret@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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.

tc43@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 2y

Oh you