Career Progression Pathways
- Defined routes for promotions and skill development opportunities.
The Parties agree to interpret and apply this Agreement consistently with the following principles aimed at promoting workforce mobility:
The work required of a modern career is not static but always changing, due to factors such as new government priorities, population growth, the pace and scale of emergency technological advancement, changing community service delivery expectations and the need to respond to evolving complex public policy problems or crises.
Embracing these changing priorities is essential to providing secure, flexible employment TZV. Within a framework of secure employment and flexibility, the Parties acknowledge the importance of ensuring that TZV Employees can be responsively deployed to support changing government priorities.
The Parties agree that the principles set out above will be operationalised over the life of the Agreement, through a range of changed workplace practices, modes of work and service delivery. These may include, for example but not limited to:
Facilitation of greater mobility, including through 'talent pools' for identified functions, the development of job families and a more advanced approach to linking skill development, career aspirations and job demand trends
Interdisciplinary project teams or joint ventures, which change in size and composition over time, with shared resources and/or reporting lines outside traditional hierarchical structures or across departmental boundaries
The parties agree that workforce mobility measures are not intended to adversely affect Employees' overall employment security within the VPS or otherwise disadvantage Employees in their employment.
- in recognition of the Parties commitment to the mobility principles outlined above
- in recognition of the fact that the work required of a modern emergency service is not static but always changing
- to acknowledge Employees are committed to ensuring they can be responsively deployed to support changing government priorities, and
- to encourage Employees to gain relevant, diverse, and evolving skills and experience across the emergency service to support their capability and career development.
REDUNDANCY
Include redundancy etc clause in EBA to Protect Support Office workers
Redundancy terms and conditions - 2 weeks' pay for every year of service (or more) and lump sum that increases each year, on the same percentage that salaries increase. Personal leave to be paid out in the case of a targeted redundancy