Document history

2024 Sep 06 – Private and secondary employment policy was consolidated with the Employee benefits and entitlement policy and removed from the policy library. Approved by the Chief People Officer.

2022 Oct 20 - updated the policy statement and implementation document, Private and Secondary Employment procedure, to ensure relevance and accuracy. Clarified compliance requirements for leave without pay in the procedures (section 4.1) and incorporated existing (standalone) content on private tutoring (section 6.3). Application form was converted to a writable PDF.

2021 Apr 14 - policy maintenance, which may include but not limited to, updated contact details, business unit or position titles, typographical, text and style changes and repairing hyperlinks.

2019 Dec - minor updates to the Private and Secondary Employment Procedure to add references to the Corruption Prevention Policy, as required by the Corruption and Fraud Prevention Plan. Revised in August 2007 following amendments by the Education Legislation Amendment (Staff) Act 2006 to the Teaching Service Act 1980, the Technical and Further Education Commission Act 1990 and the Education (School Administrative and Support Staff) Act 1987. The major changes since the last version relate to the following, The Education Legislation Amendment Staff Act 2006 inserted new provisions in the Teaching Service Act 1980, Education (School Administrative and Support Staff) Act 1987 and Technical and Further Education Commission Act 1990 (sections 5A, 7A and 22C respectively) which provide that the protection of children is to be a paramount consideration in taking any action with respect to employees under those Acts. Determination no 950 of 2006 made under section 130 (1) of the Public Sector Employment and Management Act 2002 states that Public Service staff seeking to undertake duties as Returning Officers must comply with the private employment requirements in accordance with section 59 of the Public Sector and Employment Management Act 2002.

Superseded documents

2021 Apr | Title: Private and Secondary Employment Procedure