Our Gifts and Benefits Policy recommends that Commission employees don’t accept any gifts or benefits in their role at the Commission. Quality assessors, complaints officers and decision makers mustn’t accept any gift or benefit in connection with their Commission work. There are only a few situations when an employee is allowed to accept a gift. These are covered in the policy.
Employees must report any gift or benefit they’ve been offered within 10 business days of the offer being made. They need to do this whether they’ve accepted or refused the gift. Employees report any offers through an internal gifts and benefits register. We collect the data from the internal register and report it to the Commission’s Executive. Some of the data is also reported publicly here.
How does it work?
We have an internal register that records all the gifts and benefits (of any value) that staff are offered and that they've declined or accepted. We publicly publish a register of all gifts and benefits our staff receive worth more than $100 (excluding GST). We also publicly publish if staff receive complementary, invitation only airline lounge memberships.
Why we disclose gifts and benefits
We’re committed to being transparent in everything we do. A publicly available gift register makes sure we're accountable and following the Code of Conduct in the Public Service Act 1999 (PS Act).
When offered a gift or benefit, we base whether to accept them on:
- impartiality
- ethical conduct
- accountability
- behaving honestly and with integrity
- avoiding any conflict of interest
- not improperly using senior employees’ status to gain a benefit or an advantage.
Under the Australian Public Service Commission guidelines we need to publicly share this information within 28 days of receiving the gift. We also need to publish our register quarterly.
Our gift registers
Gifts and Benefits Standing Disclosure for Airline Memberships
|
Date recorded |
Presented by |
Gift/benefit type |
Recipient (level) |
Occasion |
Gift/benefit value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 July 2024 – 30 September 2024
We don’t have any gifts or benefits to publish.
Past quarters
1 April 2024 - 30 June 2024
|
Date received |
Date Recorded |
Gift or benefit |
Received by (position level) |
Presented by (name, organisation) |
Occasion |
Total estimated value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 May 2024 | 4 June 2024 | Two tickets | EL2 | Forefront Events | Digital Workplace Summit VIC | $3,990 (each ticket valued at $1,995) |
1 January 2024 – 31 March 2024
We don't have any gifts or benefits to publish.
1 October 2023 – 31 December 2023
We don't have any gifts or benefits to publish.
1 July 2023 – 30 September 2023
We don't have any gifts or benefits to publish.
1 April 2021 – 30 June 2023
|
Date received |
Date Recorded |
Gift or benefit |
Received by (position level) |
Presented by (name, organisation) |
Occasion |
Total estimated value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27/04/2021 | 10/05/2021 | iPad – received as a quiz prize at the Institution of Internal Auditors SOPAC 21 conference. | EL2 | Wolters Kluwer | $900RRP |
