Crown Lands NSW – Restructure

Central Council 13 March 2006

Report adopted

The Department of Lands last year initiated a restructure of its Crown Lands Division, and established a Crown Lands Restructure Implementation Committee on which management representatives sit with the Executive of the PSA's Department of Lands Departmental Committee and delegates from each region of Crown Lands.

Early this year, some members employed by Crown Lands in some of the regions began to express some concerns about the evaluation and grading of the positions of 'Team Leader', which form the second tier in the organisation's proposed new structure.

As a result, successive meetings have been held by the PSA with the Department to address our members' concerns. A somewhat protracted process, as a result of the refusal of management to accept the legitimacy of our members' concerns, has resulted in an agreement that the job evaluation organisation, Mercer (Cullen, Egan and Dell) wil l re-evaluate these positions with input from both the Department and the PSA.

The outcome of Mercer's discussions with each party, and then its re-evaluation of the positions, is awaited. In the meantime, the Department has agreed to suspend (internal) recruitment to these positions.