The Treasurer, Mike Baird, is expected to announce 10,000 public sector jobs will be shed on top of the 5000 redundancies announced in September.
But while the earlier job cuts were pursued through voluntary redundancies, that approach is not guaranteed this time.
Instead the cuts, anticipated to save $2.2 billion over four years, will be achieved by imposing a ''labour expense cap'' to target an annual 1.2 per cent reduction in labour costs across all government agencies.
The government will recommit to exempting nurses, police and teachers in schools, but not TAFE teachers, from the cuts
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