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Definition

The category of an employee's role or position, described in their contract with an agency or department, as represented by a code.

Components

Data Element (this item)

Representation

This representation is based on the value domain for this data element, more information is available at " Employment category Code N ".
Data Type NUMBERSTRING
Format N
Maximum character length 2
Values
Value Meaning Start Date End Date
Permissible Values 1 Ongoing – Senior Officer
2 OngoingOther than Senior Officers and Senior Executives
3 Temporary Employee
5 Contract Non-executive
6 Casual
7 Sessional or Seasonal
8 Cadet
9 Trainee
10 Apprentice
11 Retained Firefighters – Fire & Rescue NSW (FRNSW) use only
12 Contract - senior executive not in Public Service senior executive or Aligned Executive Service (NSW Health, NSW Police and Transport NSW)
13 Temporary Senior Officer
14 Temporary Teachers (Department of Education only)
15 Statutory Appointees or Tipstaves
16 NSW Police – transitional Police senior executives and transitional Administrative senior executives subject to the provisions of Part 32 of Schedule 4 of the Police Act 1990
17 Graduate
18 Contract – Public Service senior executive
19 Contract – Aligned Executive Service (NSW Health, NSW Police and Transport NSW only)
20 Transport Service Senior Manager (Transport NSW only)

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Output in Derivations 0
Inclusion in Data Set Specifications 0
Inclusion in Data Distributions 1
As a numerator in an Indicator 0
As a denominator in an Indicator 0
As a disaggregation in an Indicator 0