Remuneration Freeze for Executive, Judicial and Senior Office Holders
Statutory and Other Offices Remuneration Amendment Bill 2023
Legislative Council
Legislative Assembly
Assent
Introduced by: The Hon John Graham MLC (ALP); Jo Haylen MP (ALP)
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Effects of this bill
If this bill passes, it means that:
The Debate
What different members said when this bill was debated:
Mr MATT KEAN
“The Statutory and Other Offices Remuneration Amendment Bill 2023 would freeze the salary of senior executives bands 1 to 4 at the level set by the Statutory and Other Office Remuneration Tribunal in its 2022 annual determination until 30 June 2025.”
Nathan Hagarty ALP
“I contribute to debate in support of the Statutory and Other Offices Remuneration Amendment Bill 2023. The bill will amend the Statutory and Other Offices Remuneration Act to temporarily freeze any increases in remuneration for senior office holders in the public service.”
Jo Haylen ALP
“I thank the member for Hornsby and the member for Leppington. The bill implements the Minns Labor Government’s election commitment to implement a two-year pay freeze for senior public servants. I commend the bill to the House.”
News articles and press releases
Statutory and Other Offices Remuneration Amendment Bill 2023
The Hon. JOHN GRAHAM, Minister for Roads — 2023-06-01
Schedule 1 item [2] inserts a new savings and transitional provision that makes provision for machinery matters in relation to the regulation to be enacted by schedule 2. Schedule 2 establishes the Statutory and Other Offices Remuneration (Executive Office Holders and Senior Executives) Regulation 2023. That new regulation is the instrument that will implement the pay freeze for executive office holders and senior executives. The regulation prescribes a policy that the tribunal is not to make a determination that has the effect of awarding an increase in remuneration that takes effect before 1 July 2025.