Our colonial history refers to public sector workers as “servants”. While this has discriminatory undertones, it has largely been culturally accepted that public sector workers are servants of the people. I think a conversation is justified when I, as a private individual (the people), can be sent home without pay by my organisation because they have no requirements for my services at this time, but those who are paid by my taxes are home on full pay, in some cases delivering no services at all, even as the government heads for a ballooning deficit.
I think it should be discussed […]
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