Queensland Numbered Acts

PUBLIC SECTOR ACT 2022 - SECT 113

113 Employee may request review of status after 1 year of continuous employment

(1) A public sector employee who has been continuously employed on a non-permanent basis in the same public sector entity for at least 1 year, may ask the employee’s chief executive to decide whether to—

(a) continue the employee’s employment according to the terms of the employee’s existing employment; or

(b) offer to convert the employee’s employment to a permanent basis.

(2) The employee can not make more than 1 request under subsection (1) in each 12 month period starting on the day the request is made.

(3) For working out how long the employee has been continuously employed in the public sector entity—

(a) all periods of authorised leave are to be included; and

(b) the employee is to be regarded as continuously employed even if there are periods during which the employee is not employed in the entity, if the periods of non-employment in the entity total 6 weeks or less in the year occurring immediately before the time when the duration of the employee’s continuous employment is being worked out.