48Employment of eligible persons as non-executive administrative employees

48 Employment of eligible persons as non-executive administrative employees

48 Employment of eligible persons as non-executive administrative employees

(cf rule 26 GSE (General) Rules 2014)

(1) An eligible person may be employed by the Commissioner as a non-executive administrative employee.

(2) The Commissioner must be satisfied that the eligible person employed in a role under this rule is suitable for the role and have the greatest merit of the eligible persons seeking to be employed in the role.

(3) Part 2 applies for the purposes of subrule (2) but with such modifications as are necessary to facilitate the employment of eligible persons. Without limiting the operation of this subrule, the capabilities of eligible persons must be assessed against the pre-established standards for the role using such capability-based assessments as the Commissioner considers relevant.

(4) In this rule:

eligible person means any of the following:

(a) an Aboriginal person or Torres Strait Islander,

(b) a person with a disability,

(c) a person under the age of 25 years,

(d) a person who, on or after 1 December 2015, enters or has entered Australia on a Refugee and Humanitarian (Migrant) (Class XB) visa issued by the Commonwealth,

(e) a person who belongs to a group of persons designated by the Public Service Commissioner as being disadvantaged in employment.

(5) The designation by the Public Service Commissioner of any such group of persons is to be made publicly available on a website provided and maintained by the Public Service Commissioner.

(6) A person referred to in paragraph (d) of the definition of eligible person is not to be considered to be an eligible person for the purposes of this rule after the end of the period of 5 years following the date on which the person enters Australia in the manner referred to in that paragraph.