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  • How secure was that public service job? Redundancy in the Queensland Public Service

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    Colley, Linda
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    Colley, Linda K.
    Year published
    2004
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    Public service employment has traditionally been perceived as secure and permanent. This security has been reduced in recent years, as economic pressures and broader public sector reforms have resulted in the redundancy of numerous public servants. While many consider this to be a revolutionary or novel trend, a review of the Queensland public service demonstrates that redundancies have long been a feature of public sector employment. The nature of redundancy appears to have changed over time, with earlier redundancies being largely related to economic circumstances, and those in more recent times being related less to ...
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    Public service employment has traditionally been perceived as secure and permanent. This security has been reduced in recent years, as economic pressures and broader public sector reforms have resulted in the redundancy of numerous public servants. While many consider this to be a revolutionary or novel trend, a review of the Queensland public service demonstrates that redundancies have long been a feature of public sector employment. The nature of redundancy appears to have changed over time, with earlier redundancies being largely related to economic circumstances, and those in more recent times being related less to economic cycles than to organisational decisions to restructure. The legislative provisions for redundancy have also changed and become more fl exible and accessible. This combination of the change in the nature of redundancy, and the more accessible provisions, is not consistent with the traditional rationale for public service tenure as a protection against political dismissal.
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    Conference Title
    New economies : new industrial relations
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    http://www.mngt.waikato.ac.nz/airaanz/
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    © 2004 Association of Industrial Relations Academics Australia & New Zealand (AIRAANZ). Use hypertext link for access to publisher's website. The attached file is posted here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher, for your personal use only. No further distribution permitted.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/2306
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