To support more frequent monitoring of public service workforce trends, the Victorian Public Service Commission will complement the June workforce data collections by collecting an additional round of workforce data in December. This collection is for Victorian Public Service (VPS) agencies only.
Work-function information is required to assist Government to better understand how its public service workforce is deployed to key activities and functions.
The structure has five classifications that are intended to be mutually exclusive.
The following employee classification codes apply to the Victorian Public Service data specification.
Helping differentiate different roles
Descriptions and examples for each work-function classification.
| Code | Definition |
| A | Resignation – To Victorian Public Service employment |
| B | Resignation – To (non-VPS) Victorian public sector employment |
| C | Resignation – To Commonwealth Government employment |
| D | Resignation – To Private sector employment |
| E | Resignation – To Other employment (Community Sector, Local Govt, Other State Govt etc) |
| F | Resignation – Personal reasons |
| G | Took a Voluntary Departure Package (VDP) |
| H | Resignation – Unknown reason |
| I | Retirement |
| M | End of contract |
| N | Machinery of government transfer to another organisation |
| O | Redeployment to another organisation |
| Q | Redundancy (retrenchment, took a separation package e.g. ASP, ISP, TSP) |
| R | Dismissal (other employer-initiated separation e.g. unsatisfactory work performance, misconduct) |
| S | Death |
| T | Involuntary separation – Unknown reason |
| V | Secondment end |
| W | VPS Executive at-will termination |