Public Sector Management (Redeployment and Redundancy) Amendment Regulations 2006 (WA)

8 August 2006 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 2903

(Redeployment and Redundancy) Amendment Regulations 2006.

PS30 I *

Public Sector Management Act 1994

Public Sector Management (Redeployment and

Redundancy) Amendment Regulations 2006

Made by the Governor in Executive Council.

1.            Citation

These regulations are the Public Sector Management

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2.            The regulations amended

The amendments in these regulations are to the Public Sector
Management (Redeployment and Redundancy)
Regulations 1994*

[* Reprinted as at 1 March 2002.

For amendments to 10 July 2006 see Western Australian

Legislation Information Tables for 2005, Table 4, p. 319.]

3.             Regulation 4AA inserted

Before regulation 4A the following regulation is inserted in
Part lA-

4AA. Entitlement to be consulted regarding redundancy

(1) As soon as is practicable after an employing authority

determines that -

(a)	the office, post or position of an employee is to be abolished; and
(b)	the employee may become surplus to the requirements of the department or organisation,

the employing authority must give the employee
written notice of all relevant information relating to the

determination.

(2) Without limiting subreglation (1), the notice given

under that subregulation is to include -

(a) the reasons why -

(i)     the office, post or position is to be abolished; and

(ii)     the employee may become surplus to the requirements of the department or

organisation;

and

(b) any measures the employing authority

considers could be taken that would avoid the
employee becoming surplus to the requirements
of the department or organisation; and

(c) the period within which the employee may become surplus to the requirements of the department or organisation; and

(d) if other employees in the same department or

organisation are the subject of a determination of the kind referred to in subregulation (1), the number of those employees.

(3) The employing authority of an employee given a notice

under subregulation (1) must consult the employee in
relation to the matters set out in the notice.

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(4)	Nothing in this regulation requires an employing authority to disclose confidential information that the employing authority considers would be contrary to the interests of its department or organisation to disclose.
(5)	Notice given to an employee under subregulation (1) does not constitute notice for the purposes of regulation 4A(2).

4.           Regulation 20 amended

(1)	Regulation 20(1) is amended after "subregulations" by inserting —
" (la), ".
(2)	After regulation 20(1) the following subregulation is inserted

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(1a) A severance payment made under regulation 6, 7, 15,

16 or 17 to an employee who has completed more than one year of continuous service but less than 2 years of continuous service is the payment of an amount equal to 4 weeks' pay.

By Command of the Governor,

M. C. WAUCHOPE, Clerk of the Executive Council.