Community and Public Sector Union deputy secretary Melissa Donnelly.
Federal government departments have been ordered to keep their "average staffing levels" in line with those from 2006鈥�07, the final year of the Howard government.
The Senate was told on August 28 that labour hire firms are reaping big profits from this by supplying temporary workers who cost the government more than if they were directly employed but who earn about 3% less money.
Community and Public Sector Union deputy secretary Melissa Donnelly said it was "an utterly ludicrous situation engineered entirely by the short-sighted policies of the Turnbull government鈥�.
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