PARLIAMENTARY SERVICE ACT 1999 No. 145, 1999 No. 145, 1999

Commonwealth Numbered Acts

Termination of employment

(1): A Secretary may at any time, by notice in writing, terminate the employment of a Parliamentary Service employee in the relevant Department.

: Note: The Workplace Relations Act 1996 has rules and entitlements that apply to termination of employment.

(2): For an ongoing Parliamentary Service employee, the notice must specify the ground or grounds that are relied on for the termination.
(3): For an ongoing Parliamentary Service employee, the following are the only grounds for termination:

(a): the employee is excess to the requirements of the relevant Department;
(b): the employee lacks, or has lost, an essential qualification for performing his or her duties;
(c): non-performance, or unsatisfactory performance, of duties;
(d): inability to perform duties because of physical or mental incapacity;
(e): failure to satisfactorily complete an entry-level training course;
(f): failure to meet a condition imposed under subsection 22(6);
(g): breach of the Code of Conduct;
(h): any other ground prescribed by the determinations.

(4): The determinations may prescribe grounds or procedures applicable to the termination of the engagement of non-ongoing Parliamentary Service employees.
(5): Subsection (4) does not, by implication, limit the grounds for termination for a non-ongoing Parliamentary Service employee.

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