Chapter 9: Employment instrument
Employees within the APS generally have their employment terms and conditions set by one of the following primary employment instruments:
- Enterprise Agreements (EA)
- Public Service Act Determinations (s24(1) and (3)) (PSAD)
- Common Law Agreements (CLA)
- Australian Workplace Agreements (AWA).
The vast majority of employees in the non-SES classifications are employed under an EA.
Very small numbers of employees at these levels are covered by PSADs, CLAs or AWAs. A further 3,594 employees are engaged under a secondary agreement known as an Individual Flexibility Arrangement (IFA). The majority of these staff were at the EL levels—39% of IFAs were for EL2 staff, and 31% for EL1s.
| EA | AWA | PSA | CLA | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | |
| Graduate | 1,356 | 99.9% | 1 | 0.1% | ||||
| APS 1 | 563 | 100.% | ||||||
| APS 2 | 2,477 | 99.8% | 1 | 0.0% | 3 | 0.1% | ||
| APS 3 | 15,181 | 99.7% | 2 | 0.0% | 43 | 0.3% | 9 | 0.1% |
| APS 4 | 28,370 | 99.8% | 1 | 0.0% | 24 | 0.1% | 45 | 0.2% |
| APS 5 | 20,163 | 99.6% | 5 | 0.0% | 51 | 0.3% | 35 | 0.2% |
| APS 6 | 31,965 | 99.6% | 11 | 0.0% | 79 | 0.3% | 42 | 0.1% |
| EL 1 | 24,742 | 99.2% | 12 | 0.1% | 119 | 0.5% | 61 | 0.2% |
| EL 2 | 11,154 | 98.3% | 17 | 0.2% | 108 | 1.0% | 70 | 0.6% |
| SES 1 | 24 | 1.2% | 20 | 1.0% | 1,697 | 85.8% | 236 | 11.9% |
| SES 2 | 9 | 1.7% | 8 | 1.5% | 452 | 85.3% | 61 | 11.5% |
| SES 3 | 4 | 3.6% | 99 | 90.0% | 7 | 6.4% | ||
| All employees | 136,004 | 97.6% | 80 | 0.1% | 2,674 | 1.9% | 569 | 0.4% |
| IFA | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| N | % | ||
| Graduate | 1 | 0.1% | |
| APS 1 | 1 | 0.2% | |
| APS 2 | 2 | 0.1% | |
| APS 3 | 17 | 0.1% | |
| APS 4 | 100 | 0.4% | |
| APS 5 | 252 | 1.2% | |
| APS 6 | 252 | 0.8% | |
| EL 1 | 1,106 | 4.4% | |
| EL 2 | 1,406 | 12.4% | |
| SES 1 | 9 | 0.5% | |
| SES 2 | 2 | 0.4% | |
| All employees | 3,594 | 2.6% | |
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