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Public Service Act 2020

People working in public service - Public service workforce - Good employer requirements

74: Commissioner’s functions include promoting, developing, and monitoring equal employment opportunities

You could also call this:

"The Commissioner helps make sure everyone has a fair chance to work in the public service."

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The Commissioner has some important jobs, including helping to make sure everyone has equal chances to work in the public service. You can think of the public service like a big team that helps run the country. The Commissioner promotes, develops, and monitors programmes and policies to make sure everyone is treated fairly.

The Commissioner wants to stop things that might make it unfair for some people to get a job. This includes looking at rules and procedures that might be unfair. The Commissioner is working to make sure everyone has an equal chance to work, no matter who they are.

When the law talks about an "equal employment opportunities programme", it means a plan to find and fix things that might be unfair in the workplace, as explained in section 73 and this section.

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Public service workforce: Good employer requirements

74Commissioner’s functions include promoting, developing, and monitoring equal employment opportunities

  1. The Commissioner’s functions include promoting, developing, and monitoring equal employment opportunities programmes and policies for the public service.

  2. In this section and section 73, equal employment opportunities programme means a programme that is aimed at identifying and eliminating all aspects of policies, procedures, and other institutional barriers that cause or perpetuate, or tend to cause or perpetuate, inequality with respect to the employment of a person or group of persons.

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