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A Bill for an Act to amend the Public Service Act 1999, and for related purposes
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Registered 25 Feb 2014
Introduced HR 24 Feb 2014
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2013‑2014

 

The Parliament of the

Commonwealth of Australia

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 

 

 

 

Presented and read a first time

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Public Service Amendment (Employment for all of us) Bill 2014

 

No.      , 2014

 

(Mr Bandt)

 

 

 

A Bill for an Act to amend the Public Service Act 1999, and for related purposes

  

  


Contents

1............ Short title............................................................................................. 1

2............ Commencement................................................................................... 1

3............ Schedule(s)......................................................................................... 2

Schedule 1—Amendments                                                                                                3

Public Service Act 1999                                                                                             3

 

 


A Bill for an Act to amend the Public Service Act 1999, and for related purposes

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1  Short title

                   This Act may be cited as the Public Service Amendment (Employment for all of us) Act 2014.

2  Commencement

                   This Act commences on the day after this Act receives the Royal Assent.

3  Schedule(s)

                   Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1Amendments

  

Public Service Act 1999

1  Section 7

Insert:

disability has the same meaning as in the Disability Discrimination Act 1992.

2  After subsection 11A(2)

Insert:

Direction to ensure participation of persons with a disability or who come from a non‑English speaking background

          (2A)  For the purpose of the APS Employment Principle mentioned in paragraph 10A(1)(g), the Commissioner must issue a direction in writing that requires the total number, existing on 1 July 2014, of:

                     (a)  APS employees with a disability; and

                     (b)  APS employees who come from a non‑English speaking background;

to be doubled by 1 July 2019.

3  At the end of subsection 11A(3)

Add “or (2A)”.