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Personnel and employee management and services

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Staff Record Cards [Municipal Council of Sydney / City of Sydney]

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Unique IDAS-0081Start dateBetween 1st January 1895 and 1st May 1994Start date qualifiercircaFormatCardShort descriptionThis series consists of staff cards, 1895-1994. There are three sets of cards, each for different time period. Cards ceased to be the primary record in June 1988, when a computerised personnel system was introduced. DescriptionThis series consists of staff cards, with content from 1895-1994, although the series dated from 1901. The cards were created by the:
- Human Resources (AG-0029) in the period 01/01/1989 to 01/05/1994
- Industrial Relations Department (AG-0013) in the period 08/02/1971 to 31/12/1988
- Industrial and Personnel Department (AG-0090) in the period 20/03/1961 to 07/02/1971
- City Treasury Department I (AG-0012) in the period 01/01/1901 to 19/03/1961.

On 20 April 1900, the Town Clerk made general recommendations to Council on the standardisation and reorganisation of corporate services. These recommendations included each employee (other than labourers) being medically examined and passed as fit before being admitted to the service, a fixed maximum and minimum salary for each position on the staff, each employee to have a specified annual holiday on full pay, and the employees to be divided into categories of labourer, general, clerk, professional, and special. It was probably in conjunction with these new procedures that the Staff Cards were created.

The series consists of three sets of cards which each have a different format.

SET 1: The first set (boxes 1-6), were probably started in 1901 but some cards were backdated several years. The cards in the first set are yellow and orange and record the name, date, office (title), department, rate of pay, sick pay allowance, nature of illness, length of absence, amount paid, remarks, age, marital status, number and age of dependents, and the date they ceased to work for Council. These cards ceased to be used around 1920, when a new format was introduced, but it contains entries up to 1922.

SET 2: The change to another set of staff cards around 1920 could have originated from a resolution of Council in 1919 to introduce uniform rules for all staff regarding sick pay, holiday pay, overtime and retirement allowances. This second set of staff cards (boxes 7-52) covers permanent and temporary staff for the years 1920-1962. The green staff cards are for temporary staff. Each card contains the name, date (card opened), date of birth, rating (title), department, rate of pay, remarks, holiday pay, nature and period of illness, signature of employee, date and reason they no longer work for Council, and occasionally the address. For some employees the information on their previous card was copied onto these cards.

SET 3: In December 1960, Alderman C Wallace recommended to the Town Clerk that the Finance Committee consider creating a department to coordinate, unify and centralise all matters relating to personnel management and control. The suggestion was acted on by Council and Industrial and Personnel Department (AG-0090), was created in 1961.

The third set of cards dates from 1962, just after the formation of the new department, until 1988. However, for some of the cards, information back to 1917 has been copied from previous cards. These cards are larger in format and incorporate the pay numbering system introduced at that time. They record the name, date of birth, pay number, service number, signature, annual holidays, workers compensation and sick pay and accident leave, commencement date, classification, grade or year, department, margin per week, resignation or termination date and reason for leaving Council, authority and remarks. Some of the cards record disciplinary matters.

The cards are stamped to show when employees were transferred to other Council such as South Sydney Municipal Council, Leichhardt, and Woollahra, or to authorities such as the Sydney Markets Authority. However, there are no stamps to show which staff were transferred to South Sydney City Council on 31 December 1988.

The third set of cards (boxes 1-71 transferred in September 1997) ceased to be the primary record in June 1988, when the computerised personnel system, ‘P29’ was introduced. However, the cards are annotated until 1994 to show when the employee left Council. From 1988, a new series of cards were raised only for temporary employees (AS-0943) and permanent employees (employed since June 1988) who had made a worker's compensation claim. Some of these cards were for employees transferred to Sydney City Council from South Sydney Municipal Council in 1982 when the two Councils were amalgamated.

Boxes 59-66 of the consignment received in September 1997 were labelled as ‘terminated employees’. Most of the cards are of staff terminated on 31 December 1988, but there are also cards for staff terminated in 1983, and from 1988 until 1996. Boxes 67-71 were labelled ‘South Sydney terminated’ and appear to be cards of staff who worked for South Sydney Municipal Council but were not current employees at the time staff were transferred to Sydney City Council in 1982.

Some details of employees' names, positions and salaries that pre-date this series, can be found in the series Finance Committee Minutes (AS-0011), as each year the Finance Committee would vote on salary increases. The series Reports of the Finance Committee (AS-0022), also contains correspondence from officers' seeking salary increases.
Relationship summaryRELATED TO: Employee Service Files AS-0675 (01/01/1961 to 01/05/1994)
RELATED TO: Personnel and employee management and services AY-0070 (01/01/1901 to 01/05/1994) LanguageEnglish (eng)

Item

Staff Card - Abbott, A - employed 1911-1912

Staff Card - Abbott, JW - employed 1917-1920

Staff Card - Abbott, R - employed 1915-1920

Staff Card - Abbott, S - employed 1906-1919

Staff Card - Abbott, W - employed 1915

Staff Card - Abel, H - employed 1919

Staff Card - Aberneshy, J - employed 1913

Staff Card - Abernethy, J - employed 1907-1908

Staff Card - Abrahams, C - employed 1907-1919

Staff Card - Abrahams, D - employed 1912-1913

Staff Card - Abrahams, D - employed 1915

Staff Card - Abrahams, H - employed 1918-1920

Staff Card - Abrahams, W - employed 1910-1912

Staff Card - Acret, JE - employed 1913-1916

Staff Card - Acton, G - employed 1913

Staff Card - Acton, J - employed 1908-1909

Staff Card - Acton, J - employed 1910

Staff Card - Acton, J - employed 1912-1916

Staff Card - Adam, [first name unknown] - employed 1906-1919

Staff Card - Adam, A - employed 1906-1908

Staff Card - Adam, GH - employed 1917-1920

Staff Card - Adam, J - employed 1911-1912

Staff Card - Adams, F - employed 1916

Series

Staff Record Reports

Temporary Staff Cards

Medical History Cards

Access

Public access statusRestricted (sensitive information) - personal (general)Public access noteCards over 70 years of age from the last date of the record are open to public access. Family members may apply to the Archives for access to restricted staff cards for deceased relatives.

Identification and Arrangement

Source system ID81System of arrangementAlphabetical

Digitisation

Digitisation statusNot digitised

Data Quality

Authenticity & integrityThese are the original staff cards created by the Municipal Council of Sydney. The record has been held in the Council’s custody and has a high level of authenticity. Users should be aware that this is an historical record and the language used within the record was the language of the time it was captured, and may not reflect current community values or expectations.

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OrganisationSydney City CouncilRelated seriesEmployee Service FilesCreating agenciesHuman ResourcesCity Treasury Department IIndustrial and Personnel DepartmentIndustrial Relations DepartmentRelated activitiesPersonnel and employee management and services

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