PSCC-2011-01 Directive: Voluntary Redundancy Program Guidelines
Directors General of principal departments may approve the implementation of VoluntaryRedundancy Programs (VRPs) for agencies in their clusters.
A VRP can be used for a range of business reasons including reducing expenses, achievingefficiency dividend targets, or reducing the number of employees affected, or likely to be affected, by organisational change.
A VRP can cover some or all of a single business unit, a number of business units, or an entireagency.
Employees do not have to be declared excess in order to be offered voluntary redundancy under VRP.
Temporary and casual employees, and Senior Executive Service officers are not eligible for voluntary redundancy.
Voluntary redundancies for declared excess employees are covered by the Managing Excess Employees Policy (D2011_007).
Funding is available for voluntary redundancies where the redundancies will result in a permanent reduction in expenses.
Principal departments are required to report on VRP activity in their cluster as required by the Public Service Commission.
Issued: 17 November 2011 by Public Service Commissioner
This AR is archived. No replacements were suggested by the author.
Key information
- Status
- Archived
- Type
- Public Service Commissioner Direction
- Identifier
- PSCC-2011-01
- Compliance
- Not mandatory
Who needs to know and/or comply with this?
- Departments
- Executive agencies related to Departments
- Advisory Entities (including Boards and Committees)
- Separate agencies
- State Owned Corporations
About
- Directors General of principal departments may approve the implementation of VoluntaryRedundancy Programs (VRPs) for agencies in their clusters.
- A VRP can be used for a range of business reasons including reducing expenses, achievingefficiency dividend targets, or reducing the number of employees affected, or likely to be affected, by organisational change.
- A VRP can cover some or all of a single business unit, a number of business units, or an entireagency.
- Employees do not have to be declared excess in order to be offered voluntary redundancy under VRP.
- Temporary and casual employees, and Senior Executive Service officers are not eligible for voluntary redundancy.
- Voluntary redundancies for declared excess employees are covered by the Managing Excess Employees Policy (D2011_007).
- Funding is available for voluntary redundancies where the redundancies will result in a permanent reduction in expenses.
- Principal departments are required to report on VRP activity in their cluster as required by the Public Service Commission.
Attachment: Directive: Voluntary Redundancy Program Guidelines (D2011_023)
In the 2011 Budget, the Government announced its intention to offer voluntary redundancies primarily to reduce the number of positions in non-service delivery areas of the public sector.
Directors General of principal departments may approve the implementation of Voluntary Redundancy Programs for agencies in their clusters.
Agencies should refer to the above Directive available in the Public Service Commission Policy Directory for further details.
Graeme Head
Commissioner