Commonwealth, state and territory public service commissions speak to COVID-19’s impact on mobility and recruitment

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a variety of impacts on Australia’s public sector workforce, whether it was the early shift to working from home, the retrenching of non-essential local government staff under lockdown, the multi-department chaos behind Victoria’s hotel quarantine scheme, or mass hiring initiatives such as ‘Jobs for Canberrans’ and ‘Work for Victoria’.

Today, The Mandarin hears from federal, state and territory public service commissions on some of the challenges, successes, and long-term consequences of mobilising staff throughout the pandemic, specifically via:

• existing mobility provisions to move staff between public sector departments;
• the National