In an attempt to soften the blow of a pay freeze, the New South Wales (NSW) government is offering a $1,000 one-off payment for frontline workers and a guarantee that no public sector workers will be made redundant in the next 12 months.
The proposed legislation is an effort to use the $3 billion savings that the pay freeze will generate to create new jobs to benefit the state more broadly after it was hit hard by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic.
