6Meaning of promotion

6 Meaning of promotion

(1) In this instrument, a reference to a promotion is a reference to the ongoing assignment of duties to an ongoing APS employee at a classification that is: (a) in a higher classification group than the classification group that includes the employee’s current classification, in the same or another Agency, other than in a circumstance mentioned in subsection (2); or (b) if the employee’s current classification is a training classification—in a higher classification group than the classification group that includes the operational classification mentioned in column 3 of the table in Schedule 2 to the Classification Rules that relates to the employee’s training classification. (2) For subsection (1), the circumstances are: (a) both: (i) the duties are assigned to the employee because of the allocation of a higher classification to the employee within the same broadband in the same Agency; and (ii) that allocation has not been made as a result of a selection process meeting the requirements of Subdivision B of Division 1 of Part 4; or (b) the duties are assigned to the employee because of the allocation of an operational classification mentioned in column 3 of Schedule 2 to the Classification Rules that relates to the employee’s training classification.

Note: The following are not promotions:

(a) following a voluntary temporary reduction in an ongoing APS employee’s classification—the ongoing assignment of duties to the employee at the original classification;
(b) the temporary assignment of duties to an APS employee at a higher classification than the employee’s current classification.