Employment Type
The Enterprise Agreement provides for three types of employment:
- ongoing
- non-ongoing
- casual.
Further information can be found in the ongoing, non-ongoing and casual employment guideline and the employment conditions overview.
Electorate Officer positions
Each parliamentarian is allocated at least five Electorate Officer positions, to help the parliamentarian carry out their parliamentary and electorate responsibilities, but not responsibilities relating to party business.
There are three levels of Electorate Officer:
- Electorate Officer A (EOA)
- Electorate Officer B (EOB)
- Electorate Officer C (EOC) - the highest level.
Office structure and restructures
When employing Electorate Officers, a parliamentarian has to choose either of the two following combinations (a parliamentarian can substitute a position at a lower classification for any EOB or EOC position):
| 2 x EOA positions 2 x EOB position 1 x EOC position | OR | 1 x EOA position 4 x EOB positions |
Where a parliamentarian has an operational requirement to restructure their office, they should contact HR Advice to discuss.
Members with second and third electorate offices provided at the Commonwealth expense are respectively provided with six and seven full-time Electorate Officer positions. These positions are at the EOB classification.
Further information refer to Office restructure.
Employing family members
Parliamentarians cannot employ immediate family under the MOP(S) Act, as determined in Determination 2013/12 - Determination of condition on exercise of power of Office-Holders, Senators and Members of the House of Representatives. This includes:
- spouses
- de facto partners
- children
- parents
- siblings
- children of their spouse or de facto partner
- their child’s spouse or de facto partner
- their sibling’s spouse or de facto partner.
If a parliamentarian enters into an employment arrangement with immediate family, the employment will not be employment under the MOP(S) Act and will not be governed by the MOP(S) Act.
Parliamentarians are permitted to employ the family members of other parliamentarians.