Qld State Government spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on labour hire every month after sacking public servants

State Government spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on labour hire every month after sacking public servants 

QUEENSLAND's Health Minister has denied his department has become reliant on recruitment agency personnel as a result of widespread job cuts.Despite spending $1.7 million on labour hire through recruitment firms in the first week of February, Lawrence Springborg said that was well down on the same time last year, before the LNP won power."Unlike Labor, this government has confidence in our local employees," Mr Springborg said."Compared to February 2012, Queensland Health's reliance on contract medical staff was 23 per cent less in February this year."That's a big drop in the use of locums and corresponding increase in local efficiency." State Government spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on labour hire every month after sacking public servants | The Courier-Mail