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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
National
Jasper Lindell

New public service pay deal, cash offers aimed at avoiding strikes

ACT public sector workers will be offered top-up payments if inflation spikes under a new offer designed to de-escalate the threat of industrial action after almost a year of bargaining talks.

ACT Public Service Minister Rachel Stephen-Smith. Picture by Keegan Carroll

If Canberra's annual inflation hits 3.5 per cent in the second and third years of the deal, government workers would receive a $600 cost-of-living payment.

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