Less small businesses are using staff than when work came to office despite the solid population growth, which the opposition is linking to the government’s decision to hire tens of thousands of public servants.
The deputy leader of the opposition, Susan Law, said that there were 31,900 small companies that use Australians than when the Labor assumed the position, assuming the number of more than 953,000 to approximately 922,000.
“This seems to me a recession of small businesses,” said Law. “These numbers confirm again that we are seeing an ‘albonomy relationship’: Australia is putting a permanent public servant for each small company we are losing.”
While the number of small businesses that use Australians has been reduced, the broader definition of “small businesses” that includes unique merchants, has continued to grow under labor, and the most recent data of the financial year show that there were about 300,000 New small companies created in last year.
The new claims of the coalition are in the midst of a debate on job growth in public service and sectors with important taxpayers, such as health and education, which have substantially exceeded the growth of employment in the purely private sector.
The coalition has labeled the growth of 20 percent in the Federal Public Service, which amounts to 36,000 additional public servants, “wasteful expense”. It has not revealed how many will be cut further Download Redundancies in First Line Services.
The National Secretary of the Union of the Community and the Public Sector, Melissa Donnelly, said that any cuts of the public service would mean that pensioners, students and people with disabilities would have to wait more time to obtain support and only benefit large consultancies.
“More than half of these 36,000 public service jobs are out of Canberra,” he said. “If Peter Dutton gets rid of them, he is starting jobs from regional communities and local economies.”
The minister of small businesses, Julie Collins, disagreed with the definition of the coalition of small businesses, saying that it was “an insult to the unique workers” throughout Australia.