As a board director, you must comply with the public sector employment principles and policy requirements.
Employment of the CEO must also comply with the relevant requirement of the enabling legislation of the public entity.
In most cases, the board will ask the CEO to take responsibility for employing staff under them.
The board must always hold the CEO accountable for following the public sector employment principles and the organisation’s employment policies.
All organisations must comply with the employment principles and standards in the Public Administration Act 2004.
These principles and standards say organisation heads must have employment processes that:
The role of the Remuneration Tribunal is to:
You must be aware of the obligations on boards in relation to executive employment, which are included in the PEER Policy. These include the requirement to make a submission to the Tribunal in some circumstances.
We publish a standard executive employment contract.
This has the mandatory terms for an executive’s contract when employed in the public sector.
It's recommended your organisation also adopt the non-mandatory clauses in the standard contract and vary them if needed.
We also publish the Public Entity Executive Employment Handbook.
The handbook acts to:
You must meet the obligations set out in the:
If you breach these obligations, you could be removed or suspended from your role as board director.