Have your say on the new NSW Government Workforce Mobility Placement and Employee Transition policy

The PSA is seeking your input into the new NSW Government Workforce Mobility Placement and Employee Transition policy.

Members have laboured under the 2012 version of the Managing Excess Employees (MEE) policy for far too long. It is this policy that has forced thousands of public servants to take a so called “Voluntary Redundancies” (VR). The MEE contained financial penalties to anyone who did not take a VR “up front” and attempted to find another job within the government sector.

That was why the PSA negotiated the new Workforce Mobility Placement (WMP) policy with the incoming government, a policy that forces Agencies to undertake a compulsory period of assessment for redeployment prior to the MEE policy being activated.

As part of the Memorandum of Understanding negotiations in 2024 the PSA and the government agreed to consolidate the new WMP policy with the former Liberal government era MEE policy, to create one clear policy that focused on redeploying public servants whose roles no longer exist.

The clear aim of both the government and the PSA is to promote policies that work towards rebuilding the NSW Public Service and providing improved services to the people of New South Wales.

The draft policy has now been negotiated and is being put out to members for consideration. You can view the draft HERE

The new draft policy has as its core aims:

• To serve as a mechanism to retain public servants within government;
• Maintain the new eight week period of intensive redeployment efforts as created by the WMP policy;
• Afford each public servant a total of 12 weeks period of intensive redeployment efforts before any employee can be forcibly made redundant; and
• No employee to be disadvantaged financially from exercising their right to seek redeployment.

Once you’ve had a look at the new policy, please take the time to fill in the survey linked below (estimated time two minutes) and give us your thoughts. The survey cane be found HERE.

Members comments will guide the PSA as it continues to work with the government on improving its policies to protect the jobs of public servants and rebuild the Public Service.