Section 11: Agency Head powers and functions under the Classification Rules

Rule

Power or function

Rule 6

An Agency Head must allocate an approved classification to each APS employee in the Agency and, subject to Rule 7, that classification must be based on the on the group of duties that are determined by the Agency Head to be the duties to be performed by the employee in the Agency.

Rule 7(3)

Where an ongoing employee moves to an Agency Head’s Agency in accordance with an agreement entered into under section 26 of the Act and the move is not an ongoing move, the Agency Head must allocate to the employee:

(a) the approved classification that was allocated to the employee immediately before moving to the Agency; or

(b) another approved classification that is in the same group as the classification mentioned in paragraph (a).

Rule 9(1)

An Agency Head must allocate an approved classification to each group of duties to be performed in the Agency.

Note that the powers under Rules 9(3) and 9(4) are not separately delegable

Rule 10

An Agency Head must issue, in writing, work level standards for each classification that is not an APS, Executive Level or SES classification describing the work value of the group of duties to be performed in the Agency at that classification.

Rule 11(1)

If an APS employee who is engaged at a training classification satisfactorily finishes each training requirement for the training classification, the Agency Head must allocate to the employee a classification mentioned in column 3 of Schedule 2 that relates to the employee’s training classification.