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Directives
About directives made under the Public Service Act 1996.
Directives are made under section 34 of the Public Service Act 1996 and detail the mandatory principles to be adhered to by Queensland Government departments in a range of workforce management areas. The underpinning philosophy of the Directives is that they contain minimum process requirements.
Chief Executives are free to decide, through their own processes, how best to meet these mandatory principles, thus enabling them to develop departmental procedures that suit their individual business and service delivery needs.
Section 34 of the Public Service Act 1996 provides for the Public Service Commissioner to issue Directives about matters relating to the functions of the Public Service Commissioner (see s33 of the Act), matters required elsewhere under the Act and about overall employment conditions for senior executives, senior officers or public service officers on contract whose remuneration is equal to or higher than the remuneration payable to a senior officer. The Minister for State Development, Employment and Industrial Relations may issue Directives about remuneration and conditions of employment for persons other than senior executives and senior officers.
Directives issued by the Public Service Commission and the Minister for State Development, Employment and Industrial Relations.
Directives are administered by either the Public Service Commission (PSC) or the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations (DEIR). Please note that any directives administered by DEIR will link to the DEIR web site.
For easy reference, the directives have been grouped and sorted into two tables:
| Listing by year | |||
| • 2008 | • 2007 | ||
| • 2006 | • 2004 | • 2002 | • 1997 |
| • 2005 | • 2003 | • 1999 | • 1996 |
| Repealed or superseded directives are not included in the below tables. To view these, please visit the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations website. | ||||||
| Listing by year | ||||||
|
Directive number |
Directive
title |
Supersedes |
More info. |
Agency |
|
 |
| 2008 | ||||||
| 7/08 | Leave without Salary Credited as Service | 6/06 |
DEIR |
- |
||
| 6/08 | Appeals Directive | 6/03 |
PSC |
|||
| 5/08 | Paid Parental Leave | 18/05 |
DEIR |
- |
||
| 4/08 | Employment Screening | 4/07 |
PSC |
- |
||
| 3/08 | Critical Incident
Entitlements and Conditions |
1/08 |
Yes |
DEIR |
- |
|
| 2/08 | Contracts for a Fixed Term – Where Remuneration under the Contract is Less than that of a Senior Officer | 4/04 |
DEIR |
- |
||
| 2007 | ||||||
| 12/07 | Superannuation
Entitlements for Certain Employees |
- |
DEIR |
- |
||
| 11/07 | Grievance Resolution | 4/03 |
PSC |
- |
||
| 10/07 | Field Staff | 8/03 |
DEIR |
- |
||
| 9/07 | Transfer and Appointment Expenses | 12/06 |
DEIR |
- |
||
| 8/07 | International Travelling, Relieving and Living Expenses | 11/06 |
DEIR |
- |
||
| 7/07 | Domestic Travelling and Relieving Expenses | 10/06 |
DEIR |
- |
||
| 6/07 | Motor Vehicle Allowances | 9/06 |
DEIR |
- |
||
| 5/07 | Long Service Leave (see also Circular C4/01 Domestic and other pressing necessity as referred to in Ministerial Directive 1/01 Long Service Leave) |
21/05 |
DEIR |
- |
||
| 3/07 | Public service employees engaging in other employment | - |
PSC |
|||
| 2/7 | Rewards for Creating Commercially Valuable Intellectual Property | - |
DEIR |
- |
||
| 1/07 | Declaration of Interests: Chief Executives | 1/96 |
PSC |
|||
| 2006 | ||||||
| 13/06 | Complaints Management Systems | - |
PSC |
|||
| 8/06 | Special Leave | 1/05 |
DEIR |
- |
||
| 7/06 | Senior Executives and Senior Officers - Employment Conditions | 29/99 |
PSC |
|||
| 5/06 | Bereavement Leave | 13/05 |
DEIR |
- |
||
| 4/06 | Recruitment and Selection | 1/04 |
PSC |
|||
| 2/06 | Minimum Obligatory Human Resource Information (MOHRI) | 04/01 |
PSC |
|||
| 1/06 | Overtime Meal Allowances | 20/01 |
DEIR |
- |
||
| 2005 | ||||||
| 22/05 | The Retrenchment of Temporary Employees Engaged on a Full Time or Part Time Basis | 18/01 |
DEIR |
- |
||
| 20/05 | Recreation Leave | 8/04 |
DEIR |
- |
||
| 19/05 | Sick Leave | 8/01 |
DEIR |
- |
||
| 17/05 | Information to be conveyed when employees move between departments | 5/02 |
PSC |
|||
| 16/05 | Excess Travel Time |
7/00 |
DEIR |
- |
||
| 15/05 | Attendance - Recording
and Reporting Requirements (Including Public Holidays) |
12/01 |
DEIR |
- |
||
| 14/05 | Identified positions | - |
PSC |
|||
| 11/05 | Voluntary Early Retirement (VER) | 10/04 |
DEIR
& PSC |
|||
| 10/05 | Retrenchment | 9/04 |
DEIR
& PSC |
|||
| 5/05 | Hours and Overtime | 19/01 |
DEIR |
- |
||
| 4/05 | Court Attendance
and Jury Service |
5/01 |
DEIR |
- |
||
| 2/05 | Higher Duties | 11/01 |
DEIR |
- |
||
| 2004 | ||||||
| 11/04 | Contracts for a Fixed Term - Officers whose Remuneration is equal to or higher than that of a Senior Officer | 28/99 |
PSC |
|||
| 7/04 | Relocation Expenses for Officers Retiring from the Service | 16/01 |
DEIR |
- |
||
| 5/04 | Leave and Travel Concessions - Isolated Centres | 6/02 |
DEIR |
- |
||
| 2003 | ||||||
| 2/03 | Recognition of Previous Service and Employment | 14/01 |
DEIR |
- |
||
| 2002 | ||||||
| 4/02 | Deployment and Redeployment | 31/99 |
PSC |
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| 1999 | ||||||
| 24/99 | Transfer within and between Classification Levels and systems | 25/97 |
DEIR |
- |
||
| 19/99 | Locality Allowances
(Note: The 5.5% increase granted in the Core Queensland Government Departments Certified Agreement 1997 is not reflected in the allowances contained in the schedule to this Directive) |
12/97 |
DEIR |
- |
||
| 12/99 | Study and Examination Leave | DEIR |
- |
|||
| 4/99 | Medical Deployment and Redeployment | PSC |
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| 1997 | ||||||
| 19/97 | The Employment of Temporary Employees Engaged on a Full Time or Part Time Basis | PSC |
- |
|||
| 18/97 | Performance Management | PSC |
- |
|||
| 3/97 | Determination of Equivalence of Qualifications | PSC |
- |
|||
| 1996 | ||||||
| 10/96 | Prescribed Remuneration | DEIR |
- |
|||
| 9/96 | Code of Conduct | PSC |
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| 8/96 | Declaration of Interests: Public Service Employees (other than Chief Executives) | PSC |
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