South Sydney City Council Human Resources Department

Unique IDAG-0038DescriptionPursuant to the City of Sydney Act 1988, proclaimed 2 December 1988, the Council of the City of South Sydney, composed of six departments, was established. One of these was the Human Resources Department. It was responsible for implementing Council's policies on equal employment opportunity, personnel functions, staff safety and rehabilitation, payroll preparation, data input, and others.

The Department inherited the functions of CA 13, Industrial Relations Department, for employees of the new South Sydney City Council, including all personnel matters related to employees transferred to South Sydney from the Sydney City Council. It is composed of four branches which perform the following functions:

Personnel Branch: staff counselling, recruitment, training, workers compensation, planning and equal employment opportunity.

Safety Branch: coordinates rehabilitation and preventative strategies, accident investigation, Occupational Health and Safety training.

Industrial Relations Branch: industrial relations negotiations and award conditions.

Payroll Branch: payroll preparation.

In SSCC Annual Reports this agency is sometimes referred to as "Human Resources" and sometimes as "Employment Services".

In the 1997 Annual Report, the agency has been merged into a new Corporate Services agency.CreationSchedule gazetted pursuant to clauses 4 & 7 of Schedule 3 of the City of Sydney Act 1988, 2 December 1988AbolitionThe Annual report 1995-1996 is the last in which this agency (titled Employment Services) appears.

Series

South Sydney City Council Staff Medical Cards

South Sydney General Correspondence and Subject Files

Agency

South Sydney City Council Corporate Services Department

Description

Start date1st January 1989End date qualifierbyEnd date30th June 1997Relationship legacy dataPRECEDED BY: Industrial Relations Department AG-0013 (01/01/1989)
RELATED TO: South Sydney City Council OR-0012 (01/01/1989 to 30/06/1997)
RELATED TO: Council administration FN-0026 (01/01/1989 to 30/06/1997)
Source System ID38

Relationships

Preceding agenciesIndustrial Relations DepartmentOrganisationSouth Sydney City CouncilRelated functionsCouncil administration

Menu

South Sydney City Council Human Resources Department