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Excess staff
About excess staff:
In some situations the employment of an APS employee may be terminated on the basis that they are excess. Generally a specific procedure is followed to achieve this termination.
Current directive publications, circulars & advices:
- Termination of employment (2004)
- Circular No 2007/3: Post Separation Employment: Policy Guidelines
- Circular No 2007/4: APSjobs website and the Australian Public Service Gazette (as amended by 2008/2)
- Circular No 2004/6: Amounts to be Included in Payment in Lieu of Notice on Termination of Employment
- Circular No 2003/5: Amendment to the Public Service Commissioner's Directions 1999 on the engagement of persons who have received a redundancy benefit from Commonwealth employment (as amended by 2006/5)
- Circular No 2000/1: Workplace Relations Act 1996 - Impact on payments instead of notice of termination
- Advice No 12: Excess Employees (as amended by 2002/13)
Current good practice advice
Reference archive
- Management of Excess Staff Situations in the APS (1996)
- Circular No 1996/14: Voluntary retrenchment - Staff movement (Job swaps) within and between APS Agencies and the taxation treatment of subsequent redundancy payments
- Circular No 1998/3: Managing downsizing in the APS
- Circular No 1999/2: Redeployment and Retirement Framework and Award simplification
