Clerical Officer Review

Central Council, 20 June 2005

Report adopted

The PSA has approached the Public Employment Office seeking that the Clerical Officer Classification be put into the Crown Employees (Administrative and Clerical Officers - Salaries 2003) Award and to have a single clerical and administrative classification.

The PSA agreed at the Equity Liaison Group meeting held 23 May to draft a variation to the Crown Employees (Administration and Clerical Officers - Salaries 2003) Award to include Clerical Officers.

The PSA has drafted a variation to the award as a "without Prejudice" document. In this document we have developed a single salary scale for Clerical Officers and Clerks. In the proposed Clause 4 - Transitional Arrangements the old classifications line up with the proposed new classifications.

All of the salary points have been matched up and put them into the same classification.

The variation includes new definitions for Clerical Officer 1- 2 Group C and D.

Has two new starting points and deletes Clerical Officer (Group A), as that classification is obsolete.

Background to the Clerical Officer Agreement

Clerical Officer Agreement No 2515 was made in 1988 between the Public Employment Industrial Relations Authority (now the PEO) and the PSA.

The purpose of the Agreement was to establish a classification structure involving a variety of administrative, clerical and keyboard related functions.

The Agreement states that where an existing or new position involves an appropriate mixture of the type of duties previously undertaken separately in the classifications of Clerk (General Scale), Clerical Assistant, Typist, Stenographer and Machine Operator, the position may now be classified as a Clerical Officer.

Currently Clerical Officers are outside of the Crown Employees (Administrative and Clerical Officers - Salaries 2003) Award.