THE Australian Services Union is "outraged" by the plan to shift 600 VicRoads employees to Ballarat.
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ASU organiser Tash Wark said she met with VicRoads management on Wednesday who gave no indication of the change in the number of jobs being shifted to Ballarat.
The relocation of the VicRoads headquarters to Ballarat is a Coalition election promise and would only occur if the party was to win government in November.
Premier Denis Napthine announced the increase in job numbers, from 400 to 600, on Friday.
However, Ms Wark said she was currently seeking clarification from VicRoads on the issue after being told that no concrete decision had been made.
"The consultation is not occurring properly," she said.
"Employees are being used as the meat in a political sandwich and members are pretty concerned about the whole thing."
However, Dr Napthine said VicRoads had undertaken a detailed analysis of staffing requirements and locations.
"This analysis led to the conclusion that further corporate functions and the contract centre could be relocated to Ballarat, representing an additional 200 positions," he said.
"We have got a massive boost in the number of VicRoads people who will be relocated."
Dr Napthine said he believed staff would be "very positive" about the move to Ballarat.
"We are assuming there would be substantial relocation in the next term of government if we are re-elected," he said.
"We would get onto the job straight away, we would be building a purpose built building here and would be building that within the first year or two years from the beginning of that process."
Dr Napthine would not say how much funding would be included in next year's budget for the move.