The National Employment Standards (NES) provide casual employees with a pathway to become a permanent employee. This is also known as 'casual conversion'.
Casual employees who have worked for their employer for 12 months with a regular pattern of hours need to be offered the option to convert to full-time or part-time (permanent) employment. Certain eligibility requirements need to be met for this to occur.
Eligibility requirements
You may be eligible to be converted from casual to permanent employment if you meet these criteria:
You have been employed by a parliamentarian for at least 12 months on a continuous basis;
You have worked a regular pattern of hours for at least the last six of those months; and
You could continue working these hours as a full-time or part-time employee without significant adjustments.
If eligible, an employing parliamentarian will make a written offer for you to convert your casual employment to permanent, unless there are reasonable grounds to not offer you a permanent position.
Identifying eligible employees
MaPS identifies casual employees that have had continuous employment over the past 12 months. Where an employee has been identified, MaPS will notify the parliamentarian via email.
If you believe you may be eligible to be offered casual conversion, contact MPSHelp@finance.gov.au.
Review rights
If you disagree with your employing parliamentarian’s decision to convert or not convert your employment, you should contact them to discuss this in the first instance.
If you remain dissatisfied with the decision, review rights do exist. Further information on the mechanisms for review are available at the Fair Work Ombudsman.
More information
See the flow chart for more information.
Further information about becoming a permanent employee and the conversion framework is available at the Fair Work Ombudsman.