Queensland Consolidated Acts

PUBLIC SERVICE ACT 2008 - SECT 274

274 Disciplinary action against general and temporary employees

(1) A general or temporary employee may be disciplined under chapter 6 only in relation to a disciplinary ground that arises after the commencement.

(2) Without limiting subsection (1), section 187A only applies to a general or temporary employee who changes from a department to another department after the commencement.

(3) Subsection (4) applies if—

(a) at the commencement, there is, in relation to a general or temporary employee, 1 or more disciplinary grounds for which the employee has not been disciplined under any other law, code of conduct or other procedure; and

(b) another disciplinary ground in relation to the employee arises after the commencement; and

(c) the employee’s chief executive when the grounds mentioned in paragraph (a) arose is the employee’s chief executive when the ground mentioned in paragraph (b) arose.

(4) The employee’s chief executive when the ground mentioned in subsection (3)(b) arose may discipline the employee under chapter 6 in relation to all of the grounds as if all of the grounds arose after the commencement.