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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2025-02-05T14:15:00+10:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
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      <name>Work-From-Home Arrangements</name>
      <page num="7779" />
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          <heading>Work-From-Home Arrangements</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="6827" referenceid="b04d90ce5a204cc6b8913d2697f86b49" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. H.M. GIROLAMO</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Deputy Leader of the Opposition</name>
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          <question date="2025-02-05T03:45:00+10:30">
            <name>Work-From-Home Arrangements</name>
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            <timeStamp time="2025-02-06T00:00:00+10:30" />In reply to <by role="member" id="6827" referenceid="b04d90ce5a204cc6b8913d2697f86b49">the Hon. H.M. GIROLAMO </by>().17 October 2024).  </inserted>
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      <talker role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010" uid="68c23cbb11fd4cef84bd4eea2a027c17" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Minister for Aboriginal Affairs</name>
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            <name>Attorney-General</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector</name>
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            <name>Special Minister of State</name>
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          <question date="2025-02-05T03:45:00+10:30">
            <name>Work-From-Home Arrangements</name>
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            <by role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010" uid="68c23cbb11fd4cef84bd4eea2a027c17">The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Attorney-General, Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector, Special Minister of State):</by>  I am advised:</inserted>
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          <inserted>The Office of the Commissioner for Public Sector Employment does not have data on the number of formal work-from-home agreements between an agency and employee that allows for more time working from home than in the workplace. </inserted>
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          <inserted>The South Australian public sector offers a range of flexible working options to its employees under enterprise agreements or awards. The availability of hybrid working arrangements is a matter determined by individual agencies based on their operational needs.</inserted>
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          <inserted>Remote work is not possible for most public sector employees as they work from dedicated sites to deliver essential services to the community.</inserted>
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        <text id="202502057577049ed5024051a0001459">
          <inserted>The Commissioner for Public Sector Employment issued a whole-of-government email in May 2022 requesting all employees who have not resumed their pre-COVID working arrangements to do so as a priority.</inserted>
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