❓ Mr. Buswell questions the Department of Consumer and Employment Protection (DOCEP) regarding the value and justification for the Attraction and Retention Benefit paid to staff in the Resources Safety Division due to the resources boom in WA.
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(b) the value of the benefit; and (c) the justification for the payment?
(c) the justification for the payment?
The Department of Consumer and Employment Protection (DOCEP) received total supplementary funding of $4.127 million for 2005-06. The portion of this that relates to the Attraction and Retention Benefit is $2.187 million. (a) Amounts are paid to individual staff members in the affected positions of the Resources Safety Division of DOCEP. (b) The value of the benefit includes salary and accrued leave liability. (c) The current boom in the resources sector in WA has made it extremely difficult for the department to not only recruit qualified and experienced personnel, but to retain existing professional staff. This has been further exacerbated by the overall shortage of skilled workers in the industry that has led to significantly increased salary levels. The introduction of an Attraction and Retention Benefit has been necessary to make the salary levels in the Resources Safety Division of the department more competitive. The Attraction and Retention Benefit has been applied to certain positions of a technical and professional nature (eg engineers) to provide an additional incentive to alleviate the current situation to a certain extent. Prior to the introduction of the Attraction and Retention Benefit the staff attrition rate was increasing while the recruitment rate was diminishing.
(a) Amounts are paid to individual staff members in the affected positions of the Resources Safety Division of DOCEP. (b) The value of the benefit includes salary and accrued leave liability. (c) The current boom in the resources sector in WA has made it extremely difficult for the department to not only recruit qualified and experienced personnel, but to retain existing professional staff. This has been further exacerbated by the overall shortage of skilled workers in the industry that has led to significantly increased salary levels. The introduction of an Attraction and Retention Benefit has been necessary to make the salary levels in the Resources Safety Division of the department more competitive. The Attraction and Retention Benefit has been applied to certain positions of a technical and professional nature (eg engineers) to provide an additional incentive to alleviate the current situation to a certain extent. Prior to the introduction of the Attraction and Retention Benefit the staff attrition rate was increasing while the recruitment rate was diminishing.
(b) The value of the benefit includes salary and accrued leave liability. (c) The current boom in the resources sector in WA has made it extremely difficult for the department to not only recruit qualified and experienced personnel, but to retain existing professional staff. This has been further exacerbated by the overall shortage of skilled workers in the industry that has led to significantly increased salary levels. The introduction of an Attraction and Retention Benefit has been necessary to make the salary levels in the Resources Safety Division of the department more competitive. The Attraction and Retention Benefit has been applied to certain positions of a technical and professional nature (eg engineers) to provide an additional incentive to alleviate the current situation to a certain extent. Prior to the introduction of the Attraction and Retention Benefit the staff attrition rate was increasing while the recruitment rate was diminishing.
(c) The current boom in the resources sector in WA has made it extremely difficult for the department to not only recruit qualified and experienced personnel, but to retain existing professional staff. This has been further exacerbated by the overall shortage of skilled workers in the industry that has led to significantly increased salary levels. The introduction of an Attraction and Retention Benefit has been necessary to make the salary levels in the Resources Safety Division of the department more competitive. The Attraction and Retention Benefit has been applied to certain positions of a technical and professional nature (eg engineers) to provide an additional incentive to alleviate the current situation to a certain extent. Prior to the introduction of the Attraction and Retention Benefit the staff attrition rate was increasing while the recruitment rate was diminishing.
This has been further exacerbated by the overall shortage of skilled workers in the industry that has led to significantly increased salary levels. The introduction of an Attraction and Retention Benefit has been necessary to make the salary levels in the Resources Safety Division of the department more competitive. The Attraction and Retention Benefit has been applied to certain positions of a technical and professional nature (eg engineers) to provide an additional incentive to alleviate the current situation to a certain extent. Prior to the introduction of the Attraction and Retention Benefit the staff attrition rate was increasing while the recruitment rate was diminishing.
The introduction of an Attraction and Retention Benefit has been necessary to make the salary levels in the Resources Safety Division of the department more competitive. The Attraction and Retention Benefit has been applied to certain positions of a technical and professional nature (eg engineers) to provide an additional incentive to alleviate the current situation to a certain extent. Prior to the introduction of the Attraction and Retention Benefit the staff attrition rate was increasing while the recruitment rate was diminishing.
The Attraction and Retention Benefit has been applied to certain positions of a technical and professional nature (eg engineers) to provide an additional incentive to alleviate the current situation to a certain extent. Prior to the introduction of the Attraction and Retention Benefit the staff attrition rate was increasing while the recruitment rate was diminishing.
Prior to the introduction of the Attraction and Retention Benefit the staff attrition rate was increasing while the recruitment rate was diminishing.
(c) the justification for the payment?
The Department of Consumer and Employment Protection (DOCEP) received total supplementary funding of $4.127 million for 2005-06. The portion of this that relates to the Attraction and Retention Benefit is $2.187 million. (a) Amounts are paid to individual staff members in the affected positions of the Resources Safety Division of DOCEP. (b) The value of the benefit includes salary and accrued leave liability. (c) The current boom in the resources sector in WA has made it extremely difficult for the department to not only recruit qualified and experienced personnel, but to retain existing professional staff. This has been further exacerbated by the overall shortage of skilled workers in the industry that has led to significantly increased salary levels. The introduction of an Attraction and Retention Benefit has been necessary to make the salary levels in the Resources Safety Division of the department more competitive. The Attraction and Retention Benefit has been applied to certain positions of a technical and professional nature (eg engineers) to provide an additional incentive to alleviate the current situation to a certain extent. Prior to the introduction of the Attraction and Retention Benefit the staff attrition rate was increasing while the recruitment rate was diminishing.
(a) Amounts are paid to individual staff members in the affected positions of the Resources Safety Division of DOCEP. (b) The value of the benefit includes salary and accrued leave liability. (c) The current boom in the resources sector in WA has made it extremely difficult for the department to not only recruit qualified and experienced personnel, but to retain existing professional staff. This has been further exacerbated by the overall shortage of skilled workers in the industry that has led to significantly increased salary levels. The introduction of an Attraction and Retention Benefit has been necessary to make the salary levels in the Resources Safety Division of the department more competitive. The Attraction and Retention Benefit has been applied to certain positions of a technical and professional nature (eg engineers) to provide an additional incentive to alleviate the current situation to a certain extent. Prior to the introduction of the Attraction and Retention Benefit the staff attrition rate was increasing while the recruitment rate was diminishing.
(b) The value of the benefit includes salary and accrued leave liability. (c) The current boom in the resources sector in WA has made it extremely difficult for the department to not only recruit qualified and experienced personnel, but to retain existing professional staff. This has been further exacerbated by the overall shortage of skilled workers in the industry that has led to significantly increased salary levels. The introduction of an Attraction and Retention Benefit has been necessary to make the salary levels in the Resources Safety Division of the department more competitive. The Attraction and Retention Benefit has been applied to certain positions of a technical and professional nature (eg engineers) to provide an additional incentive to alleviate the current situation to a certain extent. Prior to the introduction of the Attraction and Retention Benefit the staff attrition rate was increasing while the recruitment rate was diminishing.
(c) The current boom in the resources sector in WA has made it extremely difficult for the department to not only recruit qualified and experienced personnel, but to retain existing professional staff. This has been further exacerbated by the overall shortage of skilled workers in the industry that has led to significantly increased salary levels. The introduction of an Attraction and Retention Benefit has been necessary to make the salary levels in the Resources Safety Division of the department more competitive. The Attraction and Retention Benefit has been applied to certain positions of a technical and professional nature (eg engineers) to provide an additional incentive to alleviate the current situation to a certain extent. Prior to the introduction of the Attraction and Retention Benefit the staff attrition rate was increasing while the recruitment rate was diminishing.
This has been further exacerbated by the overall shortage of skilled workers in the industry that has led to significantly increased salary levels. The introduction of an Attraction and Retention Benefit has been necessary to make the salary levels in the Resources Safety Division of the department more competitive. The Attraction and Retention Benefit has been applied to certain positions of a technical and professional nature (eg engineers) to provide an additional incentive to alleviate the current situation to a certain extent. Prior to the introduction of the Attraction and Retention Benefit the staff attrition rate was increasing while the recruitment rate was diminishing.
The introduction of an Attraction and Retention Benefit has been necessary to make the salary levels in the Resources Safety Division of the department more competitive. The Attraction and Retention Benefit has been applied to certain positions of a technical and professional nature (eg engineers) to provide an additional incentive to alleviate the current situation to a certain extent. Prior to the introduction of the Attraction and Retention Benefit the staff attrition rate was increasing while the recruitment rate was diminishing.
The Attraction and Retention Benefit has been applied to certain positions of a technical and professional nature (eg engineers) to provide an additional incentive to alleviate the current situation to a certain extent. Prior to the introduction of the Attraction and Retention Benefit the staff attrition rate was increasing while the recruitment rate was diminishing.
Prior to the introduction of the Attraction and Retention Benefit the staff attrition rate was increasing while the recruitment rate was diminishing.
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Answered
21 November 2006
Responded by
Minister for Employment Protection
Response time
33 days
The Department of Consumer and Employment Protection advises:
The Department of Consumer and Employment Protection (DOCEP) received total supplementary funding of $4.127 million for 2005-06. The portion of this that relates to the Attraction and Retention Benefit is $2.187 million.
(a) Amounts are paid to individual staff members in the affected positions of the Resources Safety Division of DOCEP.
(b) The value of the benefit includes salary and accrued leave liability.
(c) The current boom in the resources sector in WA has made it extremely difficult for the department to not only recruit qualified and experienced personnel, but to retain existing professional staff.
This has been further exacerbated by the overall shortage of skilled workers in the industry that has led to significantly increased salary levels.
The introduction of an Attraction and Retention Benefit has been necessary to make the salary levels in the Resources Safety Division of the department more competitive.
The Attraction and Retention Benefit has been applied to certain positions of a technical and professional nature (eg engineers) to provide an additional incentive to alleviate the current situation to a certain extent.
Prior to the introduction of the Attraction and Retention Benefit the staff attrition rate was increasing while the recruitment rate was diminishing.
The Department of Consumer and Employment Protection (DOCEP) received total supplementary funding of $4.127 million for 2005-06. The portion of this that relates to the Attraction and Retention Benefit is $2.187 million.
(a) Amounts are paid to individual staff members in the affected positions of the Resources Safety Division of DOCEP.
(b) The value of the benefit includes salary and accrued leave liability.
(c) The current boom in the resources sector in WA has made it extremely difficult for the department to not only recruit qualified and experienced personnel, but to retain existing professional staff.
This has been further exacerbated by the overall shortage of skilled workers in the industry that has led to significantly increased salary levels.
The introduction of an Attraction and Retention Benefit has been necessary to make the salary levels in the Resources Safety Division of the department more competitive.
The Attraction and Retention Benefit has been applied to certain positions of a technical and professional nature (eg engineers) to provide an additional incentive to alleviate the current situation to a certain extent.
Prior to the introduction of the Attraction and Retention Benefit the staff attrition rate was increasing while the recruitment rate was diminishing.
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