Financial summary
Our revenue and where it came from
How we spent our revenue
Financial Statements
In 2005-06, the department expended a total of $95.32M to deliver services to the community of Queensland. The department's operating result for the year was a net surplus of $0.06M; an increase of $0.05M over the previous year.
Capital acquisitions for the year totalled $1.04M. This was made up of business information systems ($0.56M), accommodation fit-outs ($0.25M) and replacement equipment ($0.23M).
Our revenue and where it came from
Funding for the department came from:
- output revenue - government funding provided to the department for the provision of services; and
- own source revenue - revenue generated by the department, mainly through grants and other contributions and the sale of goods or services.
Revenue for 2005-06 increased by 6% over the previous year mainly due to an increase in grants and other contributions. The revenue was used to fund new initiatives in the department and salary increases provided by the core enterprise bargaining agreement.
The funding for Workplace Health and Safety Services to address priority workplace health and safety issues and to improve workers' compensation issues in the public sector increased by $4.90 million in 2005-06. This was as a result of the continuation of the change in funding arrangements, commenced in 2004-05.
The increase in funding for Electrical Safety Services increase is due to representing the full year impact of the electrical safety initiatives that were commenced in 2004-05 to address issues from the Electricity Distribution and Service Delivery for the 21st Century report.
Additional output revenue was provided in 2005-06 for:
- Check Your Pay Entitlements web service initiative
- implementation and administration of the Child Employment Act 2006
- employee cost increase as a consequence of core enterprise bargaining and other employment agreements.
During 2005-06, the Department of Industrial Relations was subject to a machinery-of-government change which resulted in the Employment Policy and Research Branch, Information and Data Analysis and Learning Development Branch being transferred to the Office of the Public Service Merit and Equity (OPSME), Department of Premier and Cabinet as from 1 December 2005.
The transfer of these business units resulted in output funding of $2.06M being transferred to OPSME.
Annual revenue
Revenue by source
How we spent our revenue
Expenditure for 2005-06 increased by $5.35M or 5.95% over the previous year mainly due to increases in employee expenses.
The increase in employee expenses of $4.99M is mainly due to:
- additional staff appointed to deliver new initiatives for workplace health and safety and industrial relations
- salary increases in the core enterprise bargaining agreement.
As at 30 June 2006 the department had 842 employees (excluding employees on leave without pay).
Under the Queensland Government's Share Services Initiative, the Department of Industrial Relations purchases a range of corporate services from Corporate Solutions Queensland and CorpTech. In 2005-06, services delivered under this arrangement cost a total $5.70M.
Fees and finesThe Department of Industrial Relations collects fees of behalf of the Queensland Government. These are referred to as administered items and are neither held nor expended directly by the department. The money collected is returned to the Queensland Government's Consolidated Fund. The most significant fees collected by the department are regulatory fees associated with the Workplace Health and Safety Act 1995. Under this Act, building and construction work attracts a levy where the cost of the work is $80,000 or more. The levy is calculated at 0.125% of the cost of the work. The levy is collected by the Queensland Building and Construction Industry (Portable Long Service Leave) Authority (QLeave), on behalf of the department. Fees are also collected on the issue of certificates for people working in a prescribed occupation. Fines awarded by the courts for breaches of legislation administered by this department (such as the Workplace Health and Safety Act 1995, the Electrical Safety Act 2002 and the Industrial Relations Act 1999) are paid into the Queensland Government's Consolidated Fund. In 2005-06, the total amount collected in taxes, fees and fines was $34.69M. |
Annual expenses
Expenses by type
Shared service initiative
The Shared Service Initiative is a whole-of-Government approach to corporate service delivery. The vision is to provide high-quality, cost-effective corporate support services across the Queensland Government. Shared services is underpinned by standardising business processes, consolidating technology and pooling resources and expertise.
Under the shared service model, government agencies joined together in 'clusters' to share corporate services and resources through shared service providers (SSPs). From 1 July 2006 the hosting arrangements for the SSPs CorporateLink, PartnerOne and Corporate Solutions Queensland were consolidated from three host agencies to the Shared Service Agency (SSA) hosted by Queensland Treasury. Approximately 2,200 staff from these SSPs transitioned into the SSA.
The SSA leads the evolution and refinement of a whole-of-Government model for shared service delivery and provides a dual role of policy and program management for the Shared Service Initiative as well as service delivery by PartnerOne, Corporate Solutions Queensland and CorporateLink. The SSPs continue to service their existing clusters of agencies through operating level agreements.
SSPs for Queensland Health and Education and the Arts (Corporate and Professional Services and the Corporate Administration Agency) and Parliamentary Services continue to operate under their existing hosts.
Corporate Solutions Queensland provides a range of corporate services to the Department of Industrial Relations including human resource, finance, records management, procurement, property acquisition and management and information technology, During 2005-06, the Department of Employment and Training hosted Corporate Solutions Queensland as a separate entity, and will report on its activities in its annual report.
Financial Statements
Financial Statements 2005-06 (PDF, 1.2 MB)
Disclaimer: These statements are not to be used as an official copy.
Last updated November 9, 2006
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