Bureaucrats at war with pollies over pay

Thursday 26 February 2015

A war is brewing between the federal public service and its master over pay and conditions.

Amid scrooge-like pay offers, such as the less than 1% offered to federal Department of Infrastructure staff in exchange for working three extra days, or the 1.4% rise over three years offered to Employment Department staff in exchange for working 30 minutes more a week, anger is mounting.

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.