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Originally Posted by Doug
Compensation in most of the public sector merely has to be competitive with other provinces and not with Alberta's private sector. It is highly unlikely that a teacher would pack up their bags and move to to Ft. McMurray to drive a truck for higher pay. It is also highly unlikely they would move to another province if they where only making say 15% more in AB than elsewhere instead of 20% more. Perhaps an even better approach would be to prune the low performers. I've worked for many organizations that ranked everyone and cut the lowest 10-15%. It worked extraordinarily well as few of those people were missed. AB desperately needs Right to Work.
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Public servants need to be able to buy a house. Recruitment is an issue.
50% of trained teachers don't work in the teaching profession - and they aren't jumping to other provinces to earn their keep. That is a sure way to help morale, fire 10% and cut everyone else's pay.
For the direct public service, the Alberta Government has as many employees as we had in the mid-nineties serving a larger population. Almost all indirect employees are providing services, for example Alberta's % of expenses spent in healthcare on administration is the lowest of all the provinces. If you want to cut numbers, not just trim around the edges, you have to cut services.
What does the province do that shouldn't be done? The budget is easy to find and breaks out costs by programs. Just click on 2013-14 Government Estimates - Complete Volume here
http://www.budget2013.alberta.ca/details/index.html
Also, that ranking and cutting system was implemented by Microsoft, and it was a huge failure. Vanity Fair doesn't have the full article up but
here is a brief on it.
Microsoft abandoned the system last year.
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