Hefty shire pay rises

OVERHEARD conversation in the Post Office of a couple of Hi-Vis-wearing hard-working chaps:

“What’s going on when the rates are going up, rubbish collection costs up and it looks like we will lose the Community Resource Centre.

‘Then the councillors have voted themselves a 17.4 per cent pay rise and administration staff are to get a 15 per cent pay rise.

‘Our nurses can’t get an increase like that, and I couldn’t dream of a pay rise of just five per cent.

‘When money’s tight and costs have blown out, saving should come from the top.”

And I agree – for a shire burdened by debt, hefty pay increases are not the solution.

Kerry Gregory
Dewars Pool