The use of the overtly private sector spill-and-fill mechanism is well established in large corporations, and often follows mergers and acquisitions where efficiencies of scale are pursued to remove duplication.

An A45-1 sign should be installed in advance of an intersection where the road ahead is subject to weight restrictions and particularly where the restriction is on a bridge approached along a difficult alignment on which the turning around of heavy motor vehicles causes problems.

The Abbott government has made no secret of its intention to try and restrain the influence of unions in workplaces across Australia and sections of the Coalition are known to be barracking for major reforms to begin in the government’s own backyard.

The potential for division among department employees is a tangible worry for the union because it could be used as a tactic to try and splinter an otherwise unified front as negotiations over redundancies and the public service’s main industrial agreement come to a head between the May Budget and the end of financial year.

The Community and Public Sector Union has slammed the move to open up all Department of Communications positions for contest, saying the restructuring sought to cull up to 25 per cent of departmental staff.

“We understand that the priorities of government departments change but this is not the way to treat hard-working professionals,” said CPSU National President Alistair Waters.

While Prime Minister Tony Abbott ultimately backed away from initial promises to get now Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull to “demolish” the massive project in favour of a marginally less expensive and slower Fibre to the Node rollout for the NBN, the Coalition has long complained about what it perceives as technological zealotry over fibre in sections of the media and the technology industry.

The Department of Communications late last week issued staff with a guide to how the spill-and-fill process would operate, leaving unsuccessful candidates the unpalatable options of taking a redundancy, accepting redeployment or most controversially accepting a position at a lower grade – effectively a demotion.

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Where a road is likely to suffer excessive damage from heavy motor vehicles and the road has had a rating of Class C confirmed by the NZ Transport Agency an R5-7 sign may be installed.

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It is believed that many of the department s positions created as a direct result of Labor and Senator Conroy’s policy settings are those that will come under the most pressure.

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A radical move by the Department of Communications to force at least 550 staff to reapply for their own jobs as a way to help jettison as many as 125 positions has raised fresh fears that public service downsizing will become decidedly nasty and bitter if the tactic is deployed in other agencies.

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Engine braking restrictions are normally developed as part of the RCA bylaw process. These restrictions can also be added to the text provided on a regulatory information sign or use sign A45-5. These signs are shown in Table 15‑5.

May only be installed when the local authority has resolved that there is a need to restrict the use of heavy vehicle engine brakes on a section of road, usually in an urban area, to address noise complaints from the local community.

Where advance warning of a regulatory restriction is provided, signage should be ‘Advisory’, not use the red border or blue background.

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An A45-3 (L)/(R) sign is for stock effluent disposal facilities adjacent to the road. The sign includes the distance to the site and which side of the road it is on.

Its main benefit is that staff with skills that can be transferred can be progressed up the managerial ladder while employees contemplating retirement or resignation can be let go quickly.

An A45-3.1 (L)/(R) sign is for stock effluent disposal facilities located on a side road. The sign includes directional information in the standard format, ie turn right/left '_'00m '.

One department believed to be similarly keen for a spill and fill process is the Department of Health where so-called ‘unfunded’ employees have been sent to a special business services unit that has been bluntly nicknamed ‘the pound’.

Used to indicate restrictions for heavy vehicles on a bridge - number of axle sets or number of axle sets and gross weight or speed. Type A is in vertical format; the choice of Type A or B is determined by the bridge site and available road verge on the approaches to the bridge.

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“We call upon the Department to immediately rethink this process. If jobs need to be cut, then the Department should first ask people to apply for redundancy rather than go down this divisive route.”

RCAs can recommend that heavy vehicles use particular routes for safety and environmental reasons and / or are restricted from others. The recommended routes can be for:

Should be installed at the structure abutment or on the approach to the structure or section of road at a location where heavy vehicles can turn around.

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Heavy motor vehicles can only be operated on Class C roads to deliver or collect goods or passengers to, or from, locations along that road.

However a big problem with the application of spill-and-fill tactics is that if affected staff are subsequently allocated new jobs at a less senior rank and salary, there is potential for superannuation and other entitlements to be reduced.

Recommended heavy vehicle routes may use panel with the correct symbol and arrow oriented in the appropriate direction. This is a sign element and should be used on directional guidance to indicate routes for heavy vehicles, not used on its own.

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The Department of Communications has been regarded as a prime target for more hard line tactics for restructuring because of the previous Labor government’s heavy promotion of the National Broadband Network as a Fibre to the Home as a key economic policy to help transform service delivery and business.

Should be used to indicate a section of road where the RCA has restricted entry of heavy motor vehicles: ‘No Heavy motor vehicles beyond the sign’.

While there have been selected applications of the spill-and-fill tactic in government with parts of agencies, the CPSU believe that its application at the Department of Communications is unprecedented and the first time it has been applied to an entire department.

That view has been partly fueled by previous Communications minister Stephen Conroy strong position that advice on technology developments and regulation needed to come from physicists and scientists employed directly by the department as well as lawyers and consultants.

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Additional marker signs can be used along the bypass route to help guide traffic. Additional information on types of route markers can found in TCD manual Part 2.

Any change of direction, eg at intersections, along the route should be signed accordingly, using similar principles to signing detour routes.

This sign may be used to identify that a road is Class 1 road and able to carry vehicles of standard maximum mass and size unless a special weight or size limit applies.

An A45-6 should be used to inform drivers of heavy vehicles of a bridge restriction at a specified distance ahead '_' km to give them time to take an alternate route or turn around.

A45-4 signs should be used to indicate the entrance to stock effluent disposal sites. The directional arrow may be aligned horizontally or angled up at 45°, pointing left or right as required by site access road alignment.

Heavy vehicle restriction signs can be used to indicate bypass routes, effluent sites and engine braking restrictions. These types of signs are described in Table 15‑5.

A45-3 (L)/(R) and A45-3.1 (L)/(R) signs should be used to advise drivers of stock transporters of the presence of these facilities.