The wages of more than 400,000 NSW public sector workers should increase by just 0.3 per cent over the next 12 months, the NSW Industrial Relations Commission has determined | Rabe9
, and the NSW government was forced to turn to the industrial umpire to resolve the matter.
Ms Berejiklian at the time warned that she could not guarantee potential job cuts to the public sector if wages were not frozen for 12 months.Speaking ahead of the decision on Thursday morning, Ms Berejiklian maintained that was a possibility. "That remains the case I'm afraid, because what we wanted to do was make sure every single public servant knew that they had their job moving forward," she said.
"If we have to find extra billions of dollars over the next few years it makes that very difficult. I hope it doesn't come to that, but we've been very upfront with the community."Get our Morning & Evening Edition newsletters The most important news, analysis and insights delivered to your inbox at the start and end of each day. Sign up to
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