Merit Protection Commissioner

A newly designed selection process that relied on automated technologies and AI wrongly overturned a number of APS recruitment decisions.

The Australian Public Service Commission has tapped into its expert talent pool to create a foundational series dedicated to human resource management in the public sector.

The experienced jurist responds to the former APS commissioner’s claims that he exceeded his brief and that he should have been excluded due to apprehended bias — a concept McMillan understands quite well — and notes that he mostly found in Lloyd’s favour, dismissing all but one of nine allegations.

The acting Merit Protection Commissioner for the Australian Public Service, Mark Davidson, has kicked off an inquiry into an alleged breach of the code of conduct by the APS commissioner, John Lloyd.

It took six months and a national search for the Commonwealth to find a Merit Protection Commissioner, but still no word on when or how the next Australian Public Service Commissioner will be found.

Is harassment only when an act is repeated? Or can it be a one-off event? These and other cases are published by the Merit Protection Commissioner to help guide and shape how managers respond when more issues like these come up in their agencies.