National Skills Shortages Strategy for Local Government - Employer of Choice
To aid implementation of the National Strategy Skills Shortage Strategy for Local Government, a platform of initiatives has been created around the four strategic objectives of the strategy. The platform demonstrates the activities, partnerships and collaborations currently being undertaken by local governments, state and national local government associations and peak professional bodies.
Strategic Objective 3 – Local Government as an Employer of Choice
To promote the use of flexible and leading edge human resource management practices that transforms Local Government into a desirable workplace.
The challenge includes Local Government’s lack of labour market knowledge and strategies that provide career diversity and development. To become an innovative employer, it must adopt flexible and leading edge human resource management practices.
Strategies for the Future
1. Development of national Local Government Employer of Choice benchmarks.
2. Seek funding to establish regional Employer of Choice organisations that assist in developing local government alliances with chambers of commerce and industry to attract workers.
3. Develop a stand-alone extranet site for local government “A Great Place to Work“, that provides best practice case studies for human resources practices and career diversity across local government, with and links to employer of choice websites.
4. Development and advocacy for a package of relocation incentives for regional Australia, including taxation incentives for families to move to rural and remote regions.
