Employment Limitation

Employment limitation defined

An employment limitation is a limitation on a person’s eligibility for employment or engagement with the department, or a school council. An employment limitation may be applied when a question or concern arises about a person’s conduct, performance and/or suitability to be employed in a Victorian government school, Early Learning Victoria (ELV) centre or in another department workplace.

The imposition of an employment limitation is a process internal to the department and relates to a person’s:

• suitability to be an employee of the department or a school council
• suitability for engagement by the department or school council via a casual relief agency
• performance of work in a school, ELV centre or the department.

In practical terms, when an employment limitation is put in place, a notation is made on the person’s departmental Human Resources record (HR record). This alerts authorised users of the department’s payroll to the fact that there may be concerns with the person’s employment or engagement via a casual relief agency and directs them to contact the Conduct and Integrity Division for advice.

Once applied, the employment limitation has immediate effect.

An employment limitation may:

• preclude a person from any further work or engagement with the department
• limit the terms under which a person is to be employed or engaged (for example, a teacher may be restricted to fixed term periods of employment or to casual relief teaching).