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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 get a job and work in the public service."

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 equal employment opportunities as making sure nobody is treated unfairly when it comes to getting a job or working. The Commissioner will promote and develop programmes to help make this happen.

The Commissioner will also monitor these programmes to make sure they are working well. This means they will check to see if there are any rules or barriers that might be unfair to some people. They want to make sure everyone has an equal chance to get a job and work in the public service, and they will use programmes to help achieve this.

When we talk about equal employment opportunities, we are talking about getting rid of anything that might stop someone from getting a job or being treated fairly at work. The Commissioner's job is to help make sure this happens, and they will work with programmes and policies to do this, as mentioned in section 73. This is an important part of their role in helping to make the public service a fair place to work.

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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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