The Staff Association is very concerned about stories in the media over the past couple of days about hundreds of redundancies likely from the Research Support Services (RSS) restructure and other major change projects. We are writing to the CEO, Dr Geoff Garrett about this.
The CSIRO Strategic Plan defines a number or the Organisation's major change projects including the RSS.
The Staff Association's understanding and consultation on the implementation of RSS has been to ensure:
- quality and efficiency of support services,
- quality of jobs and career paths and
- fair treatment of staff in each change process.
We are looking for a reduction in bureaucracy through more streamlined processes to deliver cost savings.
The interests of staff lie with a successful restructure that provides better service to the research effort. We understood that jobs and work will change significantly but did not sign on to wholesale job cuts to meet savings targets.
The Staff Association has formed a consultative project group to interact and provide feedback to the CSIRO Executive on the RSS. Members of the Group are:
