The NSW government intends to launch a fresh attack on public services and the rights of people who deliver them, unions say.
Unions NSW was responding to the NSW Commission of Audit Interim Report into public sector management, released on Wednesday, which made 52 recommendations to improve the state's public service.
The Schott report was scathing of the NSW public service, which it accused of poor performance contributing to the state's worsening budget position.
NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell said the government would consider all the recommendations of the report.
Unions NSW said these included abolishing staff ratios and a rewrite of the Industrial Relations Act.
'After spending most of last year attacking the workplace rights of nurses, police, firefighters and other public sector workers, the government is now considering removing staff ratios, degrading our public services and stamping out the rights of public sector workers,' Unions NSW secretary Mark Lennon said in a statement on Thursday.
Further changes to the Industrial Relations Act were 'simply unfathomable', Mr Lennon said.
'You can't improve public services when you continually demoralise the very people who protect our community, keep us safe and look after the sick,' he said.
The legislation, which would cap wage increases at 2.5 per cent a year and sideline the Industrial Relations Commission (IRC), passed parliament last June.
The reforms sparked mass protests across the state, with about 30,000 public sector workers rallying in Sydney's Domain in September.
