Workplace Relations
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The APS Policy sets out the Australian Government’s workplace relations policy as it applies to APS agencies and their employees.
The Australian Government is committed to fair and equitable conditions of employment and job security. The Commonwealth will act as a model employer in the APS bargaining process, including through genuine bargaining to improve pay and conditions for APS employees.
Agencies that do not employ staff under the Public Service Act 1999 are referred herein as “non-APS agencies”. Part 2 of the Public Sector Workplace Relations Policy 2023 covers bargaining and workplace arrangements in non-APS agencies.
Question and Answers relating to Family and Domestic Violence Support
Background and overview of the annual APS Remuneration Survey, the source of data for the APS Remuneration Report, an annual snapshot of remuneration across the Australian Public Service.
Each year the APSC operates the Commonwealth Allowance Subscription Service (the Service) which provides subscribing Commonwealth agencies with suggested rates for a range of employment-related allowances.
The Guidance on the Right to Disconnect in the Public Sector provides agencies and managers with advice and guiding principles on the implementation of the new ‘right to disconnect’ provisions in the Fair Work Act 2009, which will commence on 26 August 2024.
The Government’s public sector Performance Bonus Guidance was released on 13 August 2021. The guidance completes the performance bonus review, which included an interim report on 25 March 2021.
The Australian Public Service Commission is reviewing of the Maternity Leave (Commonwealth Employees) Act 1973 (ML Act).
On 24 December 2019 the Prime Minister issued a Direction under subsection 21(1) of the Public Service Act 1999 - granting of paid leave to APS employees who are members of a recognised volunteer service and are deploying as part of an emergency service response (the Direction).
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