Human Resources staff
Resources for APS employees who work in HR areas
Circulars
- Archive: Circular 2000/4 : Resignation and failure to return to duty
- Circular 2006/6: Use of special measures to fill employment opportunities for people with intellectual disability
- Circular 2006/7: Planning for influenza pandemic issues – APS employment issues
- Circular 2007/3: Post Separation Employment: Policy Guidelines
- Circular 2007/5: Involvement of public servants in public information and awareness initiatives
- Circular 2008/3: Providing information on Code of Conduct investigation outcomes to complainants
- Circular 2008/4: Requirements relating to the Lobbying Code of Conduct and post separation contact with Government
- Circular 2008/7: Code of Conduct for Ministerial Staff
- Circular 2009/5: Service for redundancy pay purposes – Employees with prior service with the ACT Public Service
- Circular 2010/1: Engagement of redundancy benefit recipients
- Circular 2010/2: Engagement of people with disability through disability employment service providers
- Circular 2010/4: Revision of Special Measures and Identified Positions/Criteria provisions
- Circular 2011/1: Introduction of the Australian Public Service Bargaining Framework
- Circular 2011/2: Salary threshold advice relating to Part 2.1 of the Australian Public Service Bargaining Framework and supporting guidance
- Circular 2011/3: Additional Advice to Agencies on Facilitating Access to Employee Representatives
- Circular 2011/5: Electronic publication for advice to agencies on providing procedural fairness in whistleblower investigations
- Circular 2012/1: Revisions to the Commission's guidance on making public comment and participating online
- Circular 2012/2: Public holidays
- Commission Advice 2013/01: Amendments to the Public Service Act 1999 and Public Service Regulations 1999. Australian Public Service Commissioner’s Directions 2013
- Commission Advice 2013/02: Secretaries and Secretaries Board
- Commission Advice 2013/03: Legislative changes to matters relating to SES employment
- Commission Advice 2013/04: The new APS Values and Employment Principles. Changes to the Code of Conduct.
- Commission Advice 2013/05: Australian Public Service Commissioner’s functions (including appointment of Special Commissioners)
- Commission Advice 2013/07: Legislative changes to procedures for handling misconduct
- Commission Advice 2013/08: Legislative changes affecting whistleblowing in the APS
- Commission Advice 2013/10: Independent Selection Advisory Committees (ISACs)
- Commission Advice 2013/11: Performance management
- Commission Advice 2013/12: Legislative changes affecting diversity in the APS
- Commission Advice 2013/13: Review of actions
- Commission Advice 2013/14: Use and disclosure of employee information
- Commission Advice 2013/15: Statutory officer holders and the APS Code of Conduct
- Commission Advice 2013/16: Other employment matters
- WR 2009/10: Fair Work information statement
- WR 2009/2: Transition to the Fair Work Act 2009
- WR 2009/3: Revisions to the Australian Government Employment Bargaining Framework and supporting guidance
- WR 2009/4: National Employment Standards
- WR 2009/5: Legal Advice relating to the Fair Work Act 2009 and other workplace relations legislation - Legal Services Directions
- WR 2009/6: Termination of individual agreement-based transitional instruments (Australian Workplace Agreements)
- WR 2009/7: Long Service Leave
- WR 2009/8: Executive Vehicle Scheme
- WR 2009/9: Interaction between retention or redeployment periods and the National Employment Standards
- WR 2010/1: Responsibilities and obligations of workplace delegates
- WR 2010/2: Natural disaster warnings and agency leave arrangements
Learning and development
- AGLN conference: Adelaide
- AGLN conference: Surfers Paradise
- APSC Events and Seminars
- APSC short courses by level
- APSC short courses by location
- APSC Training Calendar
- APSC Training course registration
- Frameworks and Guidelines
- Getting that selection right
- Introduction to workforce planning
- Links
- Managing performance
- Online learning
- Promoting a harassment free workplace
- Supporting staff with mental health issues
- The APS Values and Code of Conduct
- Understanding Work Value: Job Analysis, Classification Principles, Work Level Standards and Broad-banding Defined
- Using values and ethics to drive performance
- Workforce planning in the APS
Publications
- 2011 Remuneration report
- Ability at work: Tapping the talent of people with disability
- Agency head and statutory offices excluded from the requirements of the Merit and Transparency policy
- APS Leadership and core skills strategy 2012-13
- APS Public Service Bargaining Framework
- APS Recruitment guidelines - operational guidance for agencies
- APS Redeployment Policy
- APS Values and Code of Conduct in practice: A guide to official conduct for APS employees and agency heads
- ARCHIVE: APS Employment and capability strategy for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employees
- As One: Australian Public Service Disability Employment Strategy
- As-One: A guide to effective influencing
- Australian Public Service agencies
- Australian Public Service Human Resources Summit 2012
- Australian Public Service recruitment guidelines - Managers toolkit
- Better, Faster: streamlining recruitment in the APS
- Building an Indigenous Employment Strategy kit
- Building capability: A framework for managing learning and development in the APS
- Citizenship in the Australian Public Service
- Conditions of engagement
- Conditions of engagement: Frequently asked questions
- Delegations under the Public Service Act 1999 and subordinate legislation
- Embedding the APS Values: Framework and checklist
- Guidelines on workplace diversity
- ICT statistical bulletin - 2009
- Implementing Machinery of Government Changes
- In whose interests?: Preventing and managing conflicts of interest in the APS
- Indigenous employment strategy 2012-16
- Managing redeployment agency guidelines
- Merit and transparency: Merit-based selection of APS agency heads and APS statutory office holders
- Not just about process: the review of actions scheme
- Payments in special circumstances under section 73 of the Public Service Act 1999
- Policy on exercise of discretion in review of the action “is not otherwise justified in all the circumstances”
- Recruitment and selection in the APS: The legislative framework
- Reflect: APS Values and Code of Conduct: Decision-making model
- Reinvigorating the Westminster tradition: Integrity and accountability in relations between the Australian Government and the APS
- Remuneration reports
- Respect summary guide
- Respect: promoting a culture free from harassment and bullying in the APS
- Review of the Senior Executive Service
- Senior Executive Service: Selection, mobility and separation
- Sharpening the focus: Managing performance in the APS
- Terminating APS employment
- Whole-of-government ICT strategic workforce plan 2010-2013
- Work level standards
- Workforce planning guide
Resources
- Agencies moving into the APS
- Applications for LAFIA 2013
- Applying for a role in the Senior Executive Service
- APS classification review
- APS Employment database (APSED)
- APS Indigenous Pathways programs: APS career opportunities for Indigenous Australians
- APS job family model - Coding
- APS recruitment and selection services
- APS remuneration survey
- APSED Remuneration Survey data specifications
- Changes to the Remuneration Survey: 2011 to 2012
- Contacting the Ethics advisory service
- Disability: Information for managers and human resources professionals
- Employment policy and advice contacts
- Face-to-face networks and forums
- Highlight box: courses available in other cities
- Independent selection advisory committees
- Integrated Leadership System
- Integrated leadership system resources: Profiles, comparatives and self assessment
- Learning and development
- Learning and development updates
- Merit live updates
- Merit protection and review contacts
- Merit protection and review forms
- Overview of the APS Indigenous Pathways Programs
- Panel provider (supplier) area
- Panel services
- Promotion reviews
- PS Amendment: Advices
- PS Amendment: further Advices
- PS Amendment: Info session
- PS Amendment: Q&A page
- Public Service Act amendment
- Review of actions
- Review of breaches of the Code of Conduct
- Talk with us: Collaboration - networks and online communities
- Transition to retirement arrangements for Commonwealth Superannuation Scheme (CSS) members
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