Description

• 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.