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Violet_Crumble

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2. ATO bosses warn forced redundancies may be used

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Fri May 16, 2014, 04:42 AM

May 2014

Forced redundancies will be used, if needed, to cut the jobs of thousands of public servants at the Australian Taxation Office, bosses have warned.

The nation’s tens of thousands of tax officials were offered psychological counselling on Thursday as they were told of fresh budget cuts, redundancies and greater workloads for those left behind.

The ATO has appointed senior bureaucrat Jane King to manage the mass-redundancy process, with the initial task of finding an extra 2100 job cuts in five months, with another 1700 to follow in the next four years.

There will also be cuts to IT and travel budgets and a warning from Ms King, the former boss of ATO call centres, that more tax offices around the country might close.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/public-service/ato-bosses-warn-forced-redundancies-may-be-used-20140515-zrdqv.html#ixzz31s0jqmMI

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