530-05 Staffing problems in the Department of Main Roads

Eligibility - Residents of the State of Queensland
Principal Petitioner:
A Kennedy
43 Popular Court
MORAYFIELD QLD 4506
Total Signatures - 55
Sponsoring Member: Hon Kenneth Hayward MP
Posting Date: 07/09/2005
Closing Date: 24/10/2005
Tabled Date: 25/10/2005
Referred to: Referred Minister on 26/10/2005
Responded By: Hon Paul Lucas MP on 18/01/2006
TO: The Honourable the Speaker and Members of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland

Queensland residents draws the attention of the House to the looming crisis in the Department of Main Roads. The Department needs to address the recruitment and retention of the staff that the department loses every week. This is seriously affecting the organisational capacity of the Department to deliver on the massive infrastructure requirements that Queensland needs now and into the future, and the ability of Main Roads’ workers to deliver the upcoming 210% in the RIP.

Your petitioners therefore request the House to ensure that the Department of Main Roads uses the current round of EBA negotiations to offer salary and or financial benefits to address the loss of staff, and inability to recruit new staff. Otherwise the Department of Main Roads will end up in a similar crisis to that which has engulfed Queensland Health.