SO MANY jobs needed for the unemployed but Premier Will Hodgman and Treasurer Peter Gutwein cannot foresee the usefulness of Graeme Wood and Jan Cameron's Triabunna proposal.
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Mr Hodgman and Mr Gutwein are hell-bent on sacking 1200 public servants through the failure of the wage freeze flawed legislation.
The alternative solution to the job cuts and any wage freeze is simple.
Each year about 1000 public servants either retire (400) or leave (600) through natural attrition.
Some of these are specialists positions and must be replaced.
With 27,000 employed, surely 500 could easily be absorbed by reshaping and amalgamating various departments.
This would result, over four years, in a reduction of 2000 employees and a saving of millions, resulting in no wage freeze or entitlements.
No sackings.
By fiddling with wage increases you run the risk of what happened a few years ago - 40 per cent pay increase to state politicians as a supposed "catch-up", and the voters of Tasmania were not impressed.
— BASIL FITCH, Launceston.
