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This page is being updated and may contain information this is no longer current. APS agency HR areas and Senior Executives with enquiries about termination of employment, loss of essential qualifications, non-performance of duties, forfeiture of office or excess staff can contact the Employment Policy Advice areas.
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 2000/1: Workplace Relations Act 1996 - Impact on payments instead of notice of termination
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 1999/2: Redeployment and Retirement Framework and Award simplification
