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NoM Ausgrid staff cuts - 25 February 2020

Motion: 1. That this House notes that: (a) due to ongoing cuts to staff numbers, Ausgrid was unable to adequately respond to the recent storms in New South Wales which caused widespread power outages which lasted over a week in many cases, (b) the lack of adequate staffing resulted in an unprecedented plea from Ausgrid to call in the army for support, (c) in 2015, as part of the electricity privatisation deal, the then Treasurer the Honourable Gladys Berejiklian made a commitment that Ausgrid, Endeavour and Transgrid - the governmentowned electricity companies to be privatised – would all retain a guaranteed minimum number of employees up until 30 June 2020, (d) on Wednesday 12 February 2020, the Premier made a statement to the New South Wales public on Channel Seven’s Sunrise program that was untrue when she stated: “There’s actually more full-time staff today than there was five years ago in that organisation”, (e) there are in fact far less staff in Ausgrid than there was five years ago, with Ausgrid having cut 1,300 jobs from its workforce since 2015, and 3,000 overall since the Government took office, (e) Ausgrid’s minimum legal staffing requirement is 3,570 staff, (f) an internal Ausgrid document reported by the ABC, revealed that the actual total number of staff as of 30 November 2019 was 3,238, which is 10 per cent below the legal staffing requirement, and (g) the inadequate resourcing of the privatised electricity provider has meant that communities suffered, with thousands of homes across the State left without power and a number of businesses and schools forced to close due to the inadequate storm recovery response. 2. That this House condemns: (a) the Premier, Gladys Berejiklian and Energy Minister Matt Kean for making incorrect and misleading statements about the amount of Ausgrid full-time staff, (b) the Premier Gladys Berejiklian for breaking her promise to the community that Ausgrid would have a guaranteed minimum number of employees, and (c) the Berejiklian Government for failing to ensure that Ausgrid was properly resourced as required by law, which significantly slowed the efforts of Ausgrid to restore power to homes and businesses across its distribution zone. 3. That this House calls on the Government: (a) to comply with its own legislation and ensure Ausgrid has the minimum legal requirement of 3,570 staff, and (b) to give a commitment to no more job cuts.