The leader of the opposition in Australia has discarded the promise of election to terminate the work of domestic options for civil servants after reaction.
Peter Dutton said on Monday that his liberal-national coalition “made a mistake” and apologized.
Australians will vote in elections on May 3, and the coalition presented policy as part of a package – including thousands of workplace cuts – aimed at improving public sector efficiency.
However, critics, including the current Labor Government, said that the termination of work from the home arrangements would not work disproportionately disadvantaged.
“We went wrong and apologized for that,” Dutton told reporters at a press conference.
He said the policy was only aimed at working workers in the Public Service in Canberra, but accused the Labor of presenting it otherwise in a “spreading campaign”.
Shadow Finance Minister Jane Hume said the coalition is now offering no change in flexible work arrangements.
“We listened and understand that flexible work, including home work, is part of the extraction of the best of any workforce,” she said in a statement.
The coalition also clarified its proposal to reduce 41,000 public service jobs to help financing its other policy promises. She has long been asked to describe in detail which departments would find savings and were key party figures at the table.
On Monday, however, Da -Hume said that the party – if selected – would try to achieve the reduction in five years by hiring freezing and natural tingling.
She said the coalition was “never” said there would be forced cuts and “has always planned to wisely reduce the size of public service over time.”
Dutton seems to be contrary to her, saying, “We have confused politics in this regard, and now we have made it clear that now our position.”
The Labor Government has taken advantage of changes in a Monday campaign policy.
“This is just showing that Peter Dutton is in the whole store. Peter Dutton is in the process of trying to give himself the oldest face in the history of Australian history,” employment minister Murray Wat told Australian broadcast corporation.
“But the problem with him is that he can change what he says, but he can't change who he is.”
Some state and industrial leaders around the world have been trying to reign in the flexibility of work lately.
On his first day, US President Donald Trump signed an enforcement order requesting government officials to return to the office five days a week, and companies like Amazon also require employees to return to the office full -time.
But the policy has proven to be unpopular in Australia, with the poll showing that the problems of living costs are the main concern for most voters.