Marathon Man
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Actually, I believe it's you that's missing the point.You're missing the point.............Its an efficient and humane way of getting people out.
From your posts, you accept that, in the public service, there are non-essential jobs or jobs that can be filled by one person where many do it now.
With all the benchmarking, "initiatives", studies and various other examinations, it is now being suggested that when people volunteer to take a 3 year (semi) paid leave, we'll see if their slot is essential or not...and then they'll come back into......a slot that hasn't been filled...or maybe their old slot ...that hasn't been filled either and we're paying them while they're out! It's not exactly a detailed logical method of root and branch identification of essential roles, is it?
I haven't suggested anything of the sort, but we've heard of streamlining the public service umpteen times before, with little or no effect - the opposite if anything. I believe that this "initiative", while on the face of it appearing good, will merely throw good money after bad and will end up paying people to take leave, where before they weren't paid.You seem to be more interested in seeing public servants suffer than seeing the public sector streamlined.