Victorian Public Sector Industrial Relations Policies 2025: start with the current framework

The Victorian Government updated its Public Sector Industrial Relations Policies 2025 collection on 2 November 2026. It marks the 2015 collection as archived. The policies set out how covered government employers are expected to approach matters such as bargaining, consultation, industrial action, redeployment, flexible work, leave, union engagement and secure employment.

What the framework does and does not do

The principles policy is directed at government departments and public sector bodies and their non-executive employees. Individual chapters have their own wording and scope. The framework is government policy, not an enterprise agreement, and does not give every worker a freestanding entitlement to every policy provision. Identify the law, agreement and specific policy that apply before you rely on a remedy or deadline.

What to check in corrections

A public prison officer and a worker at a privately operated prison may be employed under different instruments. For a roster change or restructure, gather the employment and classification details, the agreement, the written proposal and the consultation record. Then identify what the government-policy chapter adds to the process, rather than substituting it for the applicable agreement.

Read the current government collection, industrial relations principles and official policy PDF. Original PDF linked rather than reproduced; general workplace information only.