Hon ED DERMER asks about the redundancy packages provided to three term-of-government employees, including their years of service, the calculation formula, and the severance and leave components. The Leader of the House provides a detailed response.

AnsweredQoN 582Legislative Council
Asked
23 August 2012
Portfolio
Leader of the House representing the Premier

QuestionView source ↗

TERM-OF-GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES —
REDUNDANCIES
582. Hon ED DERMER to the Leader of the House representing
the Premier:
I refer to my question without notice 502. For each of the
three employees provided with the redundancy package —
(1) How many
years of service had the employees completed under their contract as
term-of-government employees?
(2) What was the formula applied to
calculate the redundancy packages?
(3) What were the severance and the
leave components of the redundancy packages?

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I thank the honourable member for some notice of this
question.
(1) (a) Twenty-nine years;
 (b) three years; and
 (c) three years.
(2) The
formula for end of contract payments is four weeks' salary; lump sum
equivalent to two weeks' salary for every year of continuous service
for the Western Australian government, up to a maximum of 46 weeks; and a lump
sum equivalent to any accrued leave together with pro-rata annual leave and
pro-rata long service leave.
(3) (a) Severance $146 010.00, leave $112 819.50;
(b) severance $21 127.10, leave $19 082.84;
and
(c) severance $10 944.90, leave $5 035.70.

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