❓ Mr Cook questions the WA Health budget regarding planned redundancies, specifically whether the announced redundancies are included in FTE estimates and whether they will be voluntary. The Minister confirms the figures were estimates and all redundancies are anticipated to be voluntary.
AnsweredQoN 5716Legislative Assembly
QuestionView source ↗
I refer to Budget Paper 2, Volume 1, Page 340, footnote (b) to the line item Employee Benefits, and ask: (a) are the 717 redundancies that have been announced for WA Health included in the Full Time Equivalents for 2015-16, or 2016-17; (b) will all of these redundancies be voluntary redundancies; and (c) if not, how many redundancies are anticipated to be involuntary?
AnswerView source ↗
Answered
20 September 2016
Responded by
Minister for Health
Response time
35 days
(a) No. The 717 full time equivalent (FTE) was an estimate of the excess FTE within the South Metropolitan Health Service, based on workforce modelling. It was not a planned voluntary redundancy target.
At the time of finalising the 2016-17 Budget Statements in late April 2016, the FTE estimates for 2015-16 allowed for anticipated voluntary severances of 563 FTE, for WA Health as part of the Voluntary Severance Scheme. Estimates for 2016-17 did not include any anticipated Voluntary Severances.
(b) Yes.
(c) No involuntary redundancies are anticipated.
At the time of finalising the 2016-17 Budget Statements in late April 2016, the FTE estimates for 2015-16 allowed for anticipated voluntary severances of 563 FTE, for WA Health as part of the Voluntary Severance Scheme. Estimates for 2016-17 did not include any anticipated Voluntary Severances.
(b) Yes.
(c) No involuntary redundancies are anticipated.
Explore WA Government Data
Search the full archive in the free dashboard, or query programmatically via API.
Explore more
Government Gazette
Appointments, regulatory notices, planning changes.
Hansard
Debates, questions, speeches and sentiment.
Tabled Papers
Reports and documents tabled in Parliament.
Committees
Committee profiles and recent reports.
Regulations
Subsidiary legislation with filters and summaries.
Bills
Proposed laws and parliamentary progress.
Acts
Current WA legislation and summaries.
Explanatory Memoranda
Bills with EMs (text/PDF) available.
Members
MP profiles, party breakdown and rankings.
Pollie Rankings
Data-driven rankings across 19 categories.
Amendment Chains
Track how schemes and regulations evolve over time.