Alternatives for redundant workers
The Inland Revenue Department has offered jobs to 21 Customs Department trainees in the South Island who have
been made redundant. Thirty-two trainees from Christchurch, Timaru, Dunedin, Invercargill, and Greymouth attended a meeting yesterday where they were told by their department that eight would be retained with customs but the rest would be given preference for jobs in other Government departments, mainly the Inland Revenue Department. The trainees are among 300 Customs Department
employees who will lose their jobs because of Government cost-cutting and the scrapping of such measures as sales tax.
The secretary of the Canterbury region of the Public Service Association, Mr John McKenzie, said that trainees wanted to stay with their department. The P.S.A. would hold a meeting of all trainees on Monday and would take up their case with the State Services Commission. The South Island trainees were also considering the offer of jobs with the Inland Revenue Department, he said.
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Press, 29 August 1986, Page 3
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