Icon Water has been criticised for re-signing a $27 million per year shared services deal with ActewAGL before slashing a quarter of its staff, an arrangement that allegedly raised eyebrows among rank-and-file staff.
The union that covers Icon Water’s engineering and technical staff, Professional Services Australia, said Icon renewed two contracts with ActewAGL for IT support, human resources, payroll, billing and economic advisers among other services in 2012, before embarking on a company-wide restructure less than two years later.
ACT director Dave Smith said Icon staff were now “stretched” after a hemorrhaging of professional expertise within the organisation, which…
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