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The interim evaluation of the Australian Public Service Disability Employment Strategy 2020-25 has been published.

The Commonwealth will improve its pay offer for APS employees by bringing forward the date of the Year 1 pay increase from 14 March 2024 to 21 December 2023. Due to the expected timing of ballots this will be provided as a one-off payment. This improvement is the Commonwealth’s final offer to conclude APS-wide bargaining.

The Digital Traineeship Program welcomed its first cohort of participants induction training. This will prepare them for roles in their employing agencies and departments, the program’s early adopters.

Assistant Minister for the Public Service, the Hon Patrick Gorman MP officially opened the APS Academy Campus in Townsville on 27 October. This is delivered in partnership by the Australian Public Service Commission and James Cook University, where the campus is located.

Casual loading is extra money paid to casual workers over the normal hourly rate. Outcomes of APS-wide bargaining could lift the casual loading across the service. To help explain the significant impact of these benefits, view examples to apply your own circumstance.

APS Bargaining has a range of expanded benefits for personal/carers leave to help APS employees manage their wellbeing, and life outside of work.

The parental leave changes apply to many APS parents. The paid leave entitlements are available to both primary and secondary caregivers up to 24 months after your baby is born. This opens up this leave entitlement to parents who have had a baby in the last 2 years.

Minister for the Public Service, Senator the Hon Katy Gallagher opens the Spirit of Service exhibition at MoAD.

To make sure you are informed on the APS bargaining package of pay and conditions, the Chief Negotiator, Peter Riordan PSM CF, is running Q&A sessions with APS employees.

Senator the Hon Katy Gallagher, Minister for Finance, Women and the Public Service, launched the first Australian Public Service (APS) Academy Campus at the University of Newcastle yesterday, welcoming 22 new entry-level data and digital participants.

The Australian Government is committed to providing APS employees with fair and equitable conditions of employment through genuine APS bargaining. Central to these conditions of employment is a fair and affordable pay rise for all APS employees.

We thank APS staff who submitted questions relating to service-wide bargaining at the State of the Service Roadshow (SOSR) events in March. We’ve taken the time to answer your frequently asked questions.

Watch the APS exhibition’s video to learn how the Australian Public Service (APS) has been supporting the government of the day and the Australian people for the last 120 years.

The program will support 1,000 new digital roles and job opportunities for First Nations peoples, women, older people, veterans transitioning to civilian roles and their spouses between 2022-23.

The Affirmative Measure Recruitment Hub is innovative suite of end-to-end guidance, tools and resources to support agencies in recruiting First Nations talent.

Applications for the Australian Government Graduate Program (AGGP) are open. We’ve put together our top tips to help you get started on your application.

Sarah McCann-Bartlett, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of the Australian HR Institute, shares her thoughts on how the pandemic has changed workplaces, what the future of work looks like and where HR professionals fit in.

David Thodey AO is well known in public service circles for the independent review of the APS he embarked on at the request of then-Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. The review produced an ambitious range of recommendations, including one that became the starting point for the APS HR Professional Stream. We were fortunate to sit down with David to get his views on the progress of the HR Professional stream to date, and his thoughts on the biggest challenges for the APS of the future.

An update on some of the interesting, innovative projects and initiatives that are underway, and all geared towards our fundamental priority to uplift public servants’ data capability. An update on some of the interesting, innovative projects and initiatives that are underway, and all geared towards our fundamental priority to uplift public servants’ data capability.