Issue No 100 | 29 June 2001 | |
NewsTelstra’s Sells Off Skills Base
Plans to lay off more than 400 experienced Telstra workers would strip the company of more than $28 million in human capital. The Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union has raised concerns about the cost of plans to lay off the workers in the Sydney metropolitan area, as well as hundreds more in rural and regional NSW. The CEPU's Jim Metcher says the decision will have a serious impact on service standards and Telstra's own efficiency. "The very people that Telstra want to push out the door are those more experienced staff with the most skill," Metcher says. "It costs at least $70,000 to train each of these workers and around five years for each of them to reach their full skill level." Metcher says the outsourcing frenzy within the organisation as leading to other inefficiencies. And Metcher says a major concern is that 70 per cent of the jobs Telstra will be reducing out of its Customer Field Workforce will be coming nfrom rural and regional NSW.
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