Queensland Numbered Acts

PUBLIC INTEREST DISCLOSURE ACT 2010 No. 38 - SECT 47

(1) This section gives a public service employee a right to apply for relocation.

(2) The application must be made on the ground that--

(a) it is likely a reprisal will be taken against the public service employee if the employee continues in the employee's existing work location; and

(b) the only practical way to remove or substantially remove the danger of a reprisal is to relocate the employee.

(3) The application may be made by the public service employee to the appeals officer of the Public Service Commission (the appeals officer).

(4) For the purposes of the Public Service Act 2008--

(a) the application is taken to be an appeal against a decision not to relocate the employee; and

(b) the decision mentioned in paragraph (a) is taken to have been made by the chief executive of the employee's department on the day the employee makes the application under subsection (1).

(5) If the appeals officer considers the ground is established, the appeals officer may direct that the employee be relocated within the employee's department or to another department.

(6) The appeals officer can not direct that the employee be relocated without the agreement of--

(a) the public service employee; and

(b) if the relocation is to another department--the other department's chief executive.

(7) For subsection (5), the appeals officer has power to do, or authorise the doing of, anything necessary or convenient to relocate the public service employee.

(8) In this section--

public service employee see the Public Service Act 2008, schedule 4.