In Australia, the Government of New South Wales is offering a $1,000 bonus to frontline public sector workers in the face of opposition to a wage freeze amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Last week, the Government announced the state’s 400,000 public sector workers would not be getting their 2.5 per cent pay rise because of budgetary pressures during the COVID-19 crisis.
NSW Treasurer Dominic Perrottet now wants to provide a one-off payment in lieu of a salary increase for nurses, police, paramedics, teachers and train crews.
Executives and public sector workers not designated “frontline” would miss out.
If unions agree, the $1,000 payment is expected to cost $200 million, meaning about half of the public sector workforce would receive the bonus.
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