Flexible Work Practices

Flexible work practices are used across the NSW public sector to improve the attraction and retention of employees, to balance work and family responsibilities and to more effectively deliver services to the people of NSW.

Flexible work arrangements may include flexible working hours and flexible leave options, flex-time, working from home, working from another location, job sharing, part-year employment, compressed work weeks, purchased leave, phased retirement or phased return to work, or employees having a say in rostering.

Part-time employment is now a condition of the Crown Employees (Public Service Conditions of Employment) Reviewed Award 2006. Other areas of the public service not covered by this award also have flexible working practices.

Contact your agency’s HR team to find out about the flexible work options which may be available to you.

If you are pregnant or breastfeeding, or have caring responsibilities, you may have additional entitlements to flexible work arrangements. Contact your agency’s HR team to find out more.

There are two important documents which set out the flexible working options which are available and how they may be implemented:

The Flexible Work Practices: Policy and Guidelines sets out the NSW Government policy on flexible work arrangements within NSW government employment.
The Strategies for Flexible Workplace Arrangements focuses on providing agencies, regardless of their size, with practical guidance in establishing and sustaining successful workplace arrangements.