Public service cuts not sustainable: union

13:22 AEDT Mon Apr 2 2012

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Cutting fat from the Queensland public service could end up killing the patient, a union warns.

Premier Campbell Newman plans to save $1.2 billion by restricting growth in public service wage costs to three per cent each year.

The state budget had allowed for 2.5 per cent wage rises and another two per cent growth in staff numbers to meet the demands of a rising population.

Secretary of the public service union, Together Union, Alex Scott, says the proposal could affect government services.

"We think that is unsustainable in the growing community," he told ABC Radio on Monday.

"At the end of the day you can't keep on cutting the fat from the system without hitting a bone, and kill the patient."

Mr Scott worries the Liberal National Party (LNP) government will renege on its promise of no forced redundancies.

"I don't trust any politician," he said.

"They are keeping their word at this stage."

Mr Scott says 100,000 public servants will be affected by the new government's departmental shake-ups.

The super departments of Department of Environment and Resource Management (DERM) and the Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation (DEEDI) will be broken up and Mr Scott believes Queensland Health is facing the same fate.

Mr Scott said the union would meet with the government regularly to make sure the human cost during the restructuring is minimal.

"We are going to be engaging in terms of that process to make sure ... that organisational change process has the least possible impact on our members," he said.

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