Public Hearing

Inquiry into Australian Public Service Employment Matters

Public Hearing

Friday, 14 April 2000
Committee Room 2S1, Parliament House, Canberra

Revised Program
Session 1 SES Remuneration - 1999 survey results
9.00 Department of Employment, Workplace Relations and Small Business

    Lynne Tacy, Deputy Secretary

    Rex Hoy, Group Manager, Workplace Relations Implementation

    Kate Bosser, Group Manager, People and Performance Management
Session 2 Tensions between the government's role as employer, financial controller and policy generator - experience of a policy-advising agency in its own agreement-making process
9.45 Department of Employment, Workplace Relations and Small Business (Submission # 5)
Session 3 Experience of round one agreements and how this is being applied to round two processes and

Comments on SES remuneration

10.20 Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

    Alan Henderson, Executive Coordinator, Government and Corporate

    Richard Oliver, Assistant Secretary, Corporate Support

    Craig Johnson, Adviser, Employee Relations

11.00 - 11.20 Morning tea

Session 4

11.20 - 12.30

Round-table discussion:

Experience of departments in round one agreements and how this is being applied to round two processes

  Department of Defence (Submission # 12)

    Patrick Gourley, First Assistant Secretary, Defence Personnel Executive

    Adrian Wellspring, Director, Personnel Policy and Employment Conditions Branch
  Department of the Treasury (Submission # 10)

    Ted Evans, Secretary to the Treasury

    Max Gillard, Specialist Adviser, Workplace Relations

    Pamela Henderson, Manager, Human Resources
  Department of the Environment and Heritage (Submission # 11)

    Keith Fairbrother, Assistant Secretary, People Management Branch

    Marilyn Hopkins, Director, Workplace Strategy Section.

12.30 - 13.30 Lunch

Session 5

13.30 - 15.00

Round table discussion:

The union perspective on agency-based bargaining processes and how agencies are approaching the second round

  Community and Public Sector Union (Submission # 2)

    Wendy Caird, National Secretary
    Matthew Reynolds, National President
    Doug Lilly, Assistant National Secretary
    John Stapleton, National Organiser
  Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union (Submission # 13)

    Mike Nicolaides, Assistant National Secretary, AMWU.

15.00 Adjournment