The Newman government is hiding a second round of job cuts until after the next election, the public service union says.
Together secretary Alex Scott says the government is committed to the privatisation of disability, corrective, pathology and housing services.
The budget papers have not revealed what job cuts could result from outsourcing, he said.
"They are trying to defer all the bad news until after the next election," he said.
After 14,000 job cuts since winning office, Treasurer Tim Nicholls would not guarantee there would not be more due to outsourcing.
"We are continuing to look at contestability and I've always said the public service will be something that will change to meet the demands of delivery of service," he said.
"The public service has always been something that has been dynamic and that has always been the case.
"I hope that no government, either this one or any other one in Queensland, would have to undertake the fiscal repair we had to undertake to stop the haemorrhaging of red ink that as occurring under the Labor Party."
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