About 950 jobs will go from Transport for NSW, as the agency pursues “financial sustainability reforms”.<\/p>\n
Transport secretary Josh Murray announced the cuts in a memo to staff on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
“We have to get back to a model that is sustainable for the long term, delivers on our commitments, and provides appropriate career paths for our people,” he said.<\/p>\n
“That also means reducing duplication, removing unclear reporting lines, and ensuring all our people are clear on what is expected of them.”<\/p>\n
Areas like communication, procurement, project and business support, government services and technology will be centralised as part of the efficiency measures.<\/p>\n
Mr Murray said there would be a reduction of “about 950 TSSM (transport senior service managers) and award positions.”<\/p>\n
That is in addition to about 300 senior executive roles that have already been announced, he said.<\/p>\n
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It comes after 300 executive roles were to be axed, Mr Murray said (ABC News: Nick Dole)<\/p>\n
Mr Murray said the agency had experienced “significant” growth over the past five years, with a 30 per cent increase in TSSM and award positions.<\/p>\n
“This largely occurred during and after the COVID period with 3,000 extra staff appointed,” he said.<\/p>\n
Mr Murray said he appreciated the news would be “concerning” to many employees and has vowed to consult staff on “strategic objectives and budget targets”.<\/p>\n
Cuts could help save $600 million<\/p>\n
Speaking to reporters on Wednesday afternoon, Mr Murray said\u00a0the job cuts would help save $600 million this financial year, when combined with other reductions including staff travel and contractor costs.<\/p>\n
“I would say across the people-related costs … we are looking to save around $600 million to refocus on frontline public transport services,” he said.<\/p>\n
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Mr Murray said frontline public transport services would not be impacted by the job cuts. (ABC News: Liam Patrick)<\/p>\n
Mr Murray said it “wasn’t an easy day” for Transport for NSW workers.<\/p>\n
“We can’t get away from the fact in the years immediately following the pandemic, the agency grew by 3,000 people and by two executive positions every week for a two-year period.<\/p>\n
“To sustain that growth in the long term, it can’t be done.”<\/p>\n
Transport Minister John Graham said the decision was part of the government’s plan to “prioritise” frontline services.<\/p>\n
“Change of this nature is difficult and we thank all staff at Transport for NSW for accepting these important changes to set the department up for the future on a more sustainable footing,” he said in a statement.<\/p>\n
“Labor promised to prioritise the frontline services that help people across the state get around every day and this is part of that funding rebalance.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"About 950 jobs will go from Transport for NSW, as the agency pursues “financial sustainability reforms”. Transport secretary…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16850,43,180,16860,44,2733,16862,41,39,42,40,16861,16859],"class_list":["post-15313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-cuts","tag-headlines","tag-jobs","tag-josh-murray","tag-news","tag-nsw","tag-nsw-government","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-transport","tag-transport-for-nsw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}