these levels, there is a greater use of IFAs than AWAs, PSAs and CLAs 5. Additional information combined. IFAs were in place for 2678 employees in 2011, and were used most commonly at the EL 2 level: 1449 or 11.1% of EL 2 employees that are covered by an enterprise agreement. The following section provides greater detail on a range of payments including motor vehicle related payments, performance bonuses, geographic and locality allowance and additional duties allowances. 5.1 Employment instrument As shown in Table 5.1, the most commonly used primary employment instrument at the SES levels was a PSA. An APS employee may have their terms and conditions set by the following primary employment instruments: For non-SES, PSAs tended to deliver a lower median Base Salary enterprise agreements (EA); compared to other employment instruments. Note that PSAs cover a small Australian Workplace Agreements (AWA); population and collective determinations are used as a short-term interim Public Service Act Determinations (s24(1) and (3)) (PSA); and instrument during periods of structural change, such as machinery of common law arrangements (CLA). government changes. At the non-SES classifications, the CLAs provided the highest median salary outcomes, but like AWAs, there was a very A secondary employment instrument, an individual flexibility arrangement small population of the workforce using CLAs. (IFA), may be used to vary terms and conditions of the enterprise agreement subject to the employee being better off overall than they would At the SES 1 and SES 2 classifications CLAs delivered a slightly higher have if no IFA were agreed to. median Base Salary compared with other primary instruments while PSAs delivering the highest median Base Salary at the SES 3 classification by a Employees in the non-SES classifications are usually employed an EA small margin. This is shown in Table 5.3. with very small numbers at these levels using AWAs, PSAs and CLAs. At
5. Additional information The following section provides greater detail on a range of payments including motor vehicle related payments, performance bonuses, geographic and locality allowance and additional duties allowances. 5.1 Employment instrument An APS employee may have their terms and conditions set by the following primary employment instruments: enterprise agreements (EA); Australian Workplace Agreements (AWA); Public Service Act Determinations (s24(1) and (3)) (PSA); and common law arrangements (CLA). A secondary employment instrument, an individual flexibility arrangement (IFA), may be used to vary terms and conditions of the enterprise agreement subject to the employee being better off overall than they would have if no IFA were agreed to. Employees in the non-SES classifications are usually employed an EA with very small numbers at these levels using AWAs, PSAs and CLAs. At these levels, there is a greater use of IFAs than AWAs, PSAs and CLAs combined. IFAs were in place for 2678 employees in 2011, and were used most commonly at the EL 2 level: 1449 or 11.1% of EL 2 employees that are covered by an enterprise agreement. As shown in Table 5.1, the most commonly used primary employment instrument at the SES levels was a PSA. For non-SES, PSAs tended to deliver a lower median Base Salary compared to other employment instruments. Note that PSAs cover a small population and collective determinations are used as a short-term interim instrument during periods of structural change, such as machinery of government changes. At the non-SES classifications, the CLAs provided the highest median salary outcomes, but like AWAs, there was a very small population of the workforce using CLAs. At the SES 1 and SES 2 classifications CLAs delivered a slightly higher median Base Salary compared with other primary instruments while PSAs delivering the highest median Base Salary at the SES 3 classification by a small margin. This is shown in Table 5.3.
APS-Remuneration-Report-2011.docx