FIRE
AND EMERGENCY SERVICES — VOLUNTEERS — PAID LEAVE ARRANGEMENTS
1249. Hon MARTIN ALDRIDGE to the parliamentary secretary
representing the Minister for Industrial Relations:
I refer to Legislative Council questions without notices 688
and 715 asked on 17 and 18 August 2022 regarding public sector leave
arrangements for emergency service volunteers.
(1) Has the
Circular to Departments and Authorities No. 2 of 2001 been revised and
reissued; and, if so, please table?
(2) If no to (1), is it still the minister's
intent to reissue this more than 20-year-old circular prior to the end of 2022?
(3) Will the
minister commit to expanding public sector leave arrangements to include
volunteer fire and emergency services volunteers?
(4) Will the minister expand emergency services leave
arrangements to include government trading enterprise employees?
Hon MATTHEW SWINBOURN
replied:
I thank the honourable member for some notice of the
question. The following answer has been provided to me by the Minister for
Industrial Relations.
(1) No.
(2) Yes.
(3) The
circular currently applies to volunteer fire and rescue services. It will be
revised to reference volunteer fire and emergency services.
(4) Government
trading enterprises are not covered by Circular to Departments and Authorities
No. 2 of 2001 but GTEs usually have their own arrangements under their
industrial arrangements.