❓ Question on Notice regarding redundancies offered to term-of-government employees following the March 2013 Ministry reconstitution. The answer clarifies that end-of-contract payments, not redundancies, are provided under the Public Sector Management Act.
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I refer to the March 2013 reconstitution of the Ministry, and I ask: (a) were any term-of-government employees offered, or did any of these employees request, redundancies as a result of the reconstitution of the ministry; (b) how many redundancies were offered, how many redundancies were requested and how many redundancies were granted; (c) what was the position, level and Ministerial office location of all the term-of-government employees who received redundancies; (d) how many months and/or years of service has each employee completed under their contract as term-of-government employees; (e) what was the formula applied to calculate each of the redundancy packages; (f) was this formula applied for each redundancy package and if not, why not, and for which redundancy package or packages was a different formulae applied; and (g) what was the severance and the leave components for each individual redundancy package?
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Answered
6 August 2013
Responded by
Hon C.J. Barnett
Response time
56 days
Department of the Premier and Cabinet
(a-g) Employees employed in accordance with s68 of the
Public Sector Management Act 1994
for the term of the government and in accordance with their contract of employment, are entitled to an end of contract payment given that the conditions of s72(1)(a) or (b) of the Act are met. These entitlements are not redundancy payments.
(a-g) Employees employed in accordance with s68 of the
Public Sector Management Act 1994
for the term of the government and in accordance with their contract of employment, are entitled to an end of contract payment given that the conditions of s72(1)(a) or (b) of the Act are met. These entitlements are not redundancy payments.
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