Friday 3 March 2017
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WorkSafe to fill shortfall
200 new jobs By Luke Voogt More than 200 jobs might be up for grabs at WorkSafe’s new Geelong headquarters as some staff decline to leave Melbourne, a state minister told the Indy yesterday (Thursday). About 70 per cent of the authority’s Melbourne staff who were asked to relocate under stage one of the transition had made the move, Finance Minister Robin Scott said. The trend suggested that WorkSafe would need many recruits to reach it eventual staffing level of 700-plus employees and contractors in Geelong, he said “If that continued you’d be looking at around 200 people from Geelong. “It will depend on how many people determine to (relocate). Some people have family commitments et cetera in Melbourne and won’t. “Certainly there’ll be some expectations that some people will be hired from Geelong.” Mr Scott visited Geelong yesterday as the authority completed the first stage of its relocation and met many of the 150-plus staff who were working temporarily in Geelong’s TAC headquarContinued page 3 ters.
EVERYONE’S A WINNER: Dan Menzel and 2016 Best First Year Entrant winner Caitlyn Macdonald help launch the 2017 Geelong Business Excellence Awards at Eastern Hub last week. Nominations are already pouring in for the awards amid a “real buzz” this year. FULL STORY PAGE 11 (Barefoot Media)
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