Detailed Outline
The existing electronic edition of the Personnel Handbook has been updated effective 30 October 2000 and is now available and can be accessed at the Premier's Department website.
Generally updates to the electronic edition of the Personnel Handbook will occur every six months.
The updating of the electronic edition of the Personnel Handbook demonstrates the Government's continuing commitment to delivering all appropriate services via the Internet. It also provides ready access to all employees about general conditions of employment, mostly only available to Human Resources officers in the past.
Details in the Table on the reverse side of the circular outline the sections that have changed from the August 1999 print edition/May 2000 electronic edition of the Handbook.
The electronic version of the Handbook is best viewed in Internet Explorer 4 or higher and can also be viewed in Netscape 4 or higher.
Would you please bring to the attention of your department and any sub-department or authority coming within, or associated with your administration, the availability of the updated electronic edition of the Handbook.
C. Gellatly
Director-General
Supersedes C97-83, C99-58, C2000-30
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In addition to the changes below, officers should also refer to recent Premier's Department Circulars and Memoranda on the Premier's Department website
The following table highlights the Topic, which provides an easy reference point to the hyperlinked text changes.
| Topic | Updates to text |
| Using accredited job evaluation methodologies | 1-2.5.1 When the Premier's Department's advice is to be sought |
| Recruitment, selection and appointment | 2-1.1 Sources of authority |
| Recruitment, selection and appointment | 2-6.1 Sources of authority |
| Use of eligibility lists | 2-8.3.1 Definition |
| Use of eligibility lists | 2-8.3.2 Currency |
| Roles and responsibility of selection committee | 2-13.7 Training |
| Roles and responsibility of selection committee | 2-13.11 Travelling expenses for applicants interviewed |
| Recruitment, selection and appointment | 2-14 Employment screening for child related work |
| Transfer of leave | 3-2.6.7 Sick leave |
| Leaving Public Service employment | 4-3.1.2 Payment for accrued leave - options |
| Leaving Public Service employment | 4-4 Medical retirement |
| Industrial matters | 5-1.1 Sources of authority |
| Awards, enterprise agreements and determinations | 5-2.2.3 Arrears of salary or wages |
| Application for leave | 6-4.3.2 Retention of applications |
| Other previous NSW service | 6-7.7.1 Service as a ministerial employee |
| Extended leave | 6-7.8.1 Criteria for continuous service |
| Leave without pay | 6-9.1 Sources of authority |
| Full time leave without pay | 6-9.5.3 Effects on personal superannuation contributions |
| Full time leave without pay | 6-9.5.4 Payment of employer's superannuation contributions |
| Pay while on maternity leave | 6-10.4.3 Calculation of averaged payment for leave following varying hours |
| Maternity leave | 6-10.11 Notification requirements and changes to maternity leave |
| Personal/carer's leave | 6-15.3.2 The grant |
| Recreation leave and annual leave loading | 6-17.9 Teachers appointed to the service |
| Sickness absence | 6-18 Changes to 6-18.1; 6-18.2; 6-18.3; 6-18.3.1; 6-18.3.2 and 6-18.3.3 |
| Sickness absence | 6-18.4.1 Sick leave grant |
| Sickness absence | 6-18.4.2 Care of a family member (see 6-15 Personal/carer's leave |
| Sickness absence | 6-18.6.9 Special sick leave |
| Overseas travelling allowance | 7-13.1 Source of authority |
| Overseas travelling allowance | 7-13.2.3 Travel to New Zealand and Papua New Guinea |
| Overseas travelling allowance | 7-13.3.1 Less than 35 days in one location |
| Crown Employees (Public Service Conditions of Employment 1997) Award | 10-2.11 Clause 11 - Hours of Duty |
| Crown Employees (Public Service Conditions of Employment 1997) Award | 10-2.17 Clause 17 - Area, Incidence and Duration |
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- Jun 13, 2014
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- Jun 13, 2024
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