Financial summary
Our revenue and where it came from
How we spent our revenue
Fees and fines
Shared service initiative
Following a Machinery of Government change in October 2006, the Employment and Indigenous Initiatives Division was transferred to form the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations. The transfer of the employment function provided an additional funding of $91.46M to meet employment program expenses in 2006-07 and the transfer of net assets of $0.75M.
In 2006–07, the department expended a total of $191.54M to deliver services to the community of Queensland. The department’s operating result for the year was a net deficit of $0.16M; a decrease of $0.22M over the previous year.
Capital acquisitions for the year totalled $0.46M. This was made up of business information systems ($0.15M), accommodation fit-outs ($0.20M) and replacement equipment ($0.11M).
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 2006-07 increased by 200% over the previous year mainly as a result of the transfer of the employment function in October 2006. The employment function resulted in an increase in revenues of $93.3M.
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 $3.45M in 2006-07.
Contributions for electrical safety services also increased by $0.45M as a result of growth in the number of the distribution entities’ retail premises. These increases reflect the increase in costs to service the growth in electrical distributor networks.
Additional output revenue was provided in 2006–07 to meet the increase in employee expenses as a consequence of core enterprise bargaining and other employment agreements.
How we spent our revenue
Expenditure for 2006-07 increased by $96.20M or 201% over the previous year mainly due to the machinery- of- government transfer of the employment function to the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations from 1 October 2006. The transfer of the employment function resulted in additional costs of $93.20M during 2006-07.
Employee expenses also increased by a net cost of $11.90M, mainly due to:
- additional staff appointed to deliver services in growth areas and new initiatives undertaken in workplace health and safety, electrical safety and industrial relations
- salary increases in the core enterprise bargaining agreement.
As at 30 June 2007 the department had 1033 employees (excluding employees on leave without pay), an increase of 191 employees from 30 June 2006. This was mainly due to the transfer of 160 employees as part of the employment function.
Under the Queensland Government’s Share Services Initiative, the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations purchases a range of corporate services from Corporate Solutions Queensland and CorpTech. In 2006–07, services delivered under this arrangement, cost a total of $7.03M.
Fees and fines
The Department of Employment and Industrial Relations collects fees on 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 high risk occupation.
In 2006‑07, the total amount collected in taxes, fees and fines was $50.29M.
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.
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 Employment and Industrial Relations including human resource, finance, procurement, and management and information technology. At 30 June 2007, Queensland Treasury hosted Corporate Solutions Queensland as a separate entity, and will report on its activities in its annual report.
Last updated 21 July 2009
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