{"id":10033,"date":"2024-05-30T12:13:37","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T00:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=10033"},"modified":"2024-05-30T12:13:37","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T00:13:37","slug":"corrections-department-confirms-107-vacant-positions-to-be-axed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=10033","title":{"rendered":"Corrections Department confirms 107 vacant positions to be axed"},"content":{"rendered":"

More than 100 jobs have been axed at the Department of Corrections – however, they were all positions that were vacant.<\/p>\n

Corrections was ordered to find savings of 6.5 percent, as part of Finance Minister Nicola Willis’ mission\u00a0to slash annual public service spending<\/a>\u00a0annually by $1.5 billion.<\/p>\n

The department confirmed it has disestablished 107 vacant back office jobs.<\/p>\n

“No staff have been made redundant, but we have reviewed all active back-office secondments and fixed term roles and made decisions about whether they should be continued,” a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

“A small number of staff (fewer than five) have been advised that their fixed term contract will be required to end earlier than anticipated.”<\/p>\n

But it was still recruiting for frontline staff like corrections officers, probation officers and nurses, they said.<\/p>\n

More than\u00a05000 public sector jobs have already gone<\/a>, or are set go, as part of the government’s cost-cutting measures.<\/p>\n

And it is expected further job losses will be revealed once Finance Minister Nicola Willis presents this year’s\u00a0Budget<\/a>\u00a0on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Source: RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More than 100 jobs have been axed at the Department of Corrections – however, they were all positions that were vacant. Corrections was ordered to find savings of 6.5 percent, as part of Finance Minister Nicola Willis’ mission\u00a0to slash annual public service spending\u00a0annually by $1.5 billion. The department confirmed it has disestablished 107 vacant back […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10035,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10033\/revisions\/10035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}