| Agency Head | The Secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister & Cabinet or the Secretary’s Delegate. |
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| Agreement | The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet Enterprise Agreement 2024-27. |
| APS | Australian Public Service. |
| APS Agency | An agency whose employees are employed under the PS Act, including an agency as defined in section 7 of the PS Act whose employees are employed under that Act. |
| APS Award | Australian Public Service Enterprise Award 2015 |
| APS Consultative Committee | The committee established by the APS Commissioner to consider matters pertaining to the (APS) employment relationship and of interest to the APS as a whole. |
| APS employee | An employee engaged under the PS Act. |
| Australian Defence Force Cadets | The Australian Navy Cadets, Australian Army Cadets, or the Australian Air Force Cadets. |
| Broadband | The allocation of more than one approved classification by the Delegate to a group of duties involving work value applying to more than one classification under sub-rule 9(4) of the Public Service Classification Rules 2000. A broadband encompasses the full range of work value of the classifications contained within it. |
| Casual (irregular and intermittent) employee | An employee engaged under section 22(2)(c) of the PS Act who:
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| Classification or classification level | The approved classifications as set out in rule 5 of the Public Service Classification Rules 2000. |
| CLO | Cabinet Liaison Officer. |
| Child | A biological child, adopted child, foster child, step child, or ward. |
| Compressed hours | Where an employee’s ordinary hours are compressed into fewer working days over an agreed period. Under this arrangement, ordinary hours must continue to be worked within the span of hours. |
| De facto partner | A person who, regardless of gender, is living in a common household with the employee in a bone fide, domestic, interdependent partnership, although not legally married to the employee. |
| Delegate | Someone to whom a power or function has been delegated. |
| Dependant | Employee’s spouse or de facto partner, a child, parent or aged relative of the employee or the employee’s spouse or de facto partner, who ordinarily lives with the employee and who is substantially dependent on the employee. Dependant also includes a child of the employee who does not ordinarily live with the employee but for whom the employee provides substantial financial support. |
| DLO | Departmental Liaison Officer. |
| Employee | An employee of the Commonwealth engaged under section 22(2) of the PS Act who is covered by this Agreement (whether full time, part-time or casual, ongoing or non-ongoing). |
| Employee representative | A person (whether an employee or not) elected or chosen by an employee, or elected or chosen by a group of employees in a workplace, to represent the individual and/or collective views of those employees in relation to a matter under this Agreement. |
| Family | Family or immediate family means:
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| Family & Domestic Violence | Has the same meaning as in section 106B(2) of the FW Act. |
| Full time employee | An employee employed to work an average of 37.5 hours per week in accordance with the Agreement. |
| FW Act | Fair Work Act 2009 as amended from time to time. |
| Graduates | Local PM&C title referring to employees undertaking a structured graduate program of training and work placements. |
| LSL Act | Long Service Leave (Commonwealth Employees) Act 1976. |
| Manager | An employee’s direct manager who is usually the person to whom an employee reports to on a day-to-day basis for work related matters, and may include a person referred to as a supervisor. |
| ML Act | The Maternity Leave (Commonwealth Employees) Act 1973 as amended from time to time and any successor legislation |
| NES | The National Employment Standards at Part 2-2 of the FW Act. |
| Non-ongoing employee | An employee engaged for a specified term or for the duration of a specified task in accordance with section 22(2)(b) of the PS Act, consistent with the FW Act. |
| Ongoing employee | An employee engaged under section 22(2)(a) of the PS Act. |
| Ordinary hours, duty or work | An employee’s usual hours worked in accordance with the Agreement and does not include additional hours. |
| Parliamentary Service | Employment under the Parliamentary Service Act 1999. |
| Part-time employee | An employee employed to work less than the average of 37.5 hours per week in accordance with the Agreement. |
| Partner | A spouse or de facto partner. |
| PGPA Act | Public Governance, Performance And Accountability Act 2013. |
| PM&C | The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. |
| Primary caregiver | For the purposes of the parental leave clause means a pregnant employee with an entitlement under the ML Act, or an employee other than a casual employee who has primary care responsibility for a child who is born to them or who is adopted or in long-term foster care as per the clauses on adoption and long-term foster care in this agreement. |
| PS Act | Public Service Act 1999 as amended from time to time. |
| Relevant employee | An affected employee. |
| Secondary caregiver | For the purposes of the parental leave clause means an employee, other than a pregnant employee or casual employee, who has secondary care responsibility for a child who is born to them, or for a child who is adopted or in long‑term foster care as per the clauses on adoption and long-term foster care in this agreement. |
| SES employee | Senior Executive Service employee and equivalent. |
| Shift Worker | Employees who are rostered to perform ordinary hours of work outside the span of hours, and/or on Saturdays, Sundays or public holidays for an ongoing or fixed period. |
| Span of hours | 7 am to 7 pm Monday to Friday, unless varied by formal agreement between the employee and Delegate. |
| Substantive classification | The classification level an APS employee was engaged at, or last promoted to. |
| SWS | Supported Wage System. |
| TOIL | Time off in lieu. |
| VR | Voluntary redundancy. |
| ZoD | Zone of discretion. |
This Agreement is made under s172 of the Fair Work Act 2009. It covers and applies to the Secretary of PM&C (on behalf of the Commonwealth) and APS employees in PM&C, except for substantive SES employees and SES-equivalents.