Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025N00144:clause:3_7
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025N00144
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 3 cl 7
Character Range: 5973–8098

7  Employment arrangements for electorate employees
 (1) A parliamentarian may employ up to five full-time electorate employees in accordance with subsection 11(1) of the MOP(S) Act, allocated as follows:
 (a) four full-time electorate employees with a work base of the parliamentarian's electorate office; and
 (b) one full-time electorate employee with a work base of either:
 (i) the parliamentarian's electorate office, Parliament House office, a satellite office as defined in subsection 7(7); or
 (ii) where the parliamentarian is an office-holder, in the parliamentarian's office as described at subsection 7(8).
Note:  A MOP(S) Act employee's work base has the same meaning as specified in clause 11 of the Commonwealth Members of Parliament Staff Enterprise Agreement 2024-27.[3]
 (2) For the purposes of this section a reference to a full-time employee is taken to include the number of part-time employees equivalent to a full-time employee.
Note:  For example, two part-time employees may each be equivalent to 0.5 of a full-time employee and would together be equivalent to one full-time employee.
 (3) An electorate employee must be classified as one of an:
 (a) Electorate Officer A;
 (b) Electorate Officer B; or
 (c) Electorate Officer C.
Note: These classifications and their associate salary scales are set out in Attachment C—Classification Structure – Electorate Employees of the Commonwealth Members of Parliament Staff Enterprise Agreement 2024-27.[4]
 (4) In allocating full-time electorate employee positions, a parliamentarian or office-holder will, in relation to an electorate office specified in Column 1, be allocated the number of electorate employees specified in Column 2, in accordance with the classifications specified in Column 3:

Electorate office employee allocations
                                        Column 1                                                 Column 2                             Column 3
Item                                    Electorate office                                        Electorate employee allocation       Classifications of electorate employees