Question Without Notice No. 1445 asked in the Legislative Council on 15 November 2023 by Hon Dr Steve Thomas

Parliament: 41 Session: 1  

PUBLIC SECTOR — STAFF — PERMANENCY 

1445. Hon Dr STEVE THOMAS to the Leader of the House representing the Minister for  Public Sector Management: 

I refer to my question on notice 1651, answered on 7 November 2023, on the conversion of  casual and contract public sector staff to permanency. 

(1) Why has data for the conversion of casual and contract public sector staff not been  collected for the financial years 2021–22 and 2022–23? 

(2) Who decided this data was not to be collected and on what basis or rationale was this  decision made? 

(3) Can this data be retrospectively harvested and collated? 

(4) If yes to (3), will the minister undertake to provide the 2021–22 and 2022–23 data to the  house? 

Hon SUE ELLERY replied: 

I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question. 

(1)–(2) Data collected in relation to the conversion of casual and contract public sector staff  was commenced in 2018 in association with a temporary measure and has concluded  now that agencies have completed their review of eligible staff. Further reporting was  not required once the temporary measure concluded. 

(3)–(4) The Public Sector Commission publishes information on permanency and the number  of job advertisements for permanent roles annually in the State of the WA government  sector workforce report, which provides a more complete view of sector-wide  employment arrangements.