It’s also not a competition.
■■■■ workplace standards should be called out and addressed.
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My mail is she was not doing so well at her job and other staff told her what they thought. No idea if was warranted but Marles told her to step up or find another job. He could have sacked her, no idea why he didn’t. In my experience he is a prikk of a guy.
Sacking useless people at work who haven’t technically broken any rules is a PITA
Don’t know if you have worked in Parliament House, I did a very long time ago, and there were lots of very precious people then. My visits since have not changed that view.
That said MPs have unreasonably high requirements from their staff, who are mostly treated as slaves. Even the good MPs expectations are over the top at times and the pressure is very high to perform.
Marles Chief of Staff probably earns $450,000 so it is a nice little earner.
If you are ■■■■ at your job you deserve to be called out on it.
Too many thin skinned people have a sook when told they are not up to it
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Sure they should be addressed and called out. But this is such a meek, uneventful run of the mill workplace issue that it deserves absolutely no air time. This is the type of ■■■■ that should get resolved by a mature discussion between the two parties.
The shitstorm this will unnecessarily create will chew up resources that could be much better spent elsewhere.
I agree Ace, but those days are sadly behind us.
As X found out when he had to apologise to the players for making that tweet.
And more fool X for apologising !
Exactly. That was a deadset disgrace.
If you can’t handle a bit of criticism I think it reflects badly on yourself not the person criticising
I’m surprised that a COS didn’t think she held the hose on sorting out bullying within the staff, but pushed it up the line to the Minister to sort out.
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Yep, all the Chief of Staffs I met ran their office with a very firm hand, slapping down upstarts!
Though it seems she was not performing.
I believe pollies have thoughtfully given themselves and their offices an exemption to a wide range of workplace laws, unfair dismissal may be one of them.
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People who work for Pollies pick it as a career bending with a spot in Parliament. So they put up with much grief to stay on track.
Pollies will be likely earning more than the high income threshold. Once you hit that limit, by law you are not entitled to make an unfair dismissal claim.
Threshold is now $175,000 so high level Ministers staff would all earn more than that. Some earn more than their Pollie bosses.
That said there is still a tribunal in Public Service that can judges these cases and there is always Civil Court.
Backdated to Mayish 2023 im pretty sure, so HECS debts should adjust for June 2023 & June 2024 increases.
Oh legit?
The Guardian article, quoting her, presents the problem as her staff undermining her and being disrespectful, with Marles failing to fix it after she brought it to his attention. Instead, she got pushed out of the Oftice.
It’s not rare for a someone senior to act as gatekeeper, to deny junior staff access and to force staff to funnel their contributions through them.
Yep, can guesstimate your credit here