- Laws to freeze the pay of Members of Parliament pass through Legislative Assembly
- New laws to freeze pay of MPs and senior public servants until July 2021
- Key public sector reform to assist with repairing the State's finances delivered
Legislation to freeze the pay of Members of Parliament and Western Australia's most senior public servants has successfully passed through the Legislative Assembly.
The pay freeze until 2021 will be applied to the government's most senior positions including the Governor; all Members of Parliament including the Premier and Ministers; clerks and deputy clerks of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly; judicial office holders, including masters of the Supreme Court and magistrates; the Parliamentary Inspector of the Corruption and Crime Commission; government CEOs and statutory office holders.
A key measure to assist with budget repair, the pay freeze is expected to save taxpayers $16 million.
Premier Mark McGowan announced the freeze last May, as part of the McGowan Labor Government's wages policy for the public sector.
The wages policy provides an increase of $1,000 per year for all public servants including teachers, nurses and police officers.
Comments attributed to Premier Mark McGowan:
"I am pleased the laws freezing Members of Parliament and senior bureaucrats' pay has been successfully passed through Parliament.
"This was a key part of our public sector wages policy to help fix the budget black hole left behind by the previous Liberal National Government.
"We have made it clear that fixing the budget mess left by the previous government is a job that needs to be shared across the whole WA community.
"At a time when we are asking nurses, doctors, teachers, police officers and other public sector workers to help with budget repair, it is only fair Members of Parliament and other senior executives of government do their bit as well."
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