Nationality Australian Occupation Public servant | Name John Lloyd Role Australian public servant | |
Full Name John Richard Lloyd | ||
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John Richard Lloyd is a senior Australian public servant. He is currently Australian Public Service Commissioner.
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Life and career
Between 1992 and 1996, Lloyd was Executive Director of the Victorian Department of Business and Employment. From 1996 to 2001, Lloyd was Chief Executive of the Western Australian Department of Productivity and Labour Relations.
While a Deputy Secretary in the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations from 2001 to 2004, Lloyd played a key role establishing the Royal Commission into the Building and Construction Industry in 2001, and in advising the Howard Government about its response to the report of the Commission.
Between August 2004 and September 2005, Lloyd was Senior Deputy President of the Australian Industrial Relations Commission.
Lloyd was appointed the inaugural Australian Building and Construction Commissioner in September 2005, when the Office of the Australian Building and Construction Commissioner was established to monitor and promote workplace relations in the Australian building and construction industry. In the role, he came up against powerful construction unions, advocating industrial relations changes perceived by some, including the H. R. Nicholls Society, as an attack on workers' rights. In 2010, the Labor Government announced it would not appoint John Lloyd for a second term, and named Leigh Johns as his successor in the role.
In 2013, the Victorian Government appointed Lloyd as red tape commissioner, with the target to reduce red tape by 25 per cent. In the role, Lloyd met with 25 different associations, and several individual businesses, before proposing 36 changes to regulations, including to end the ban on selling plastic knives to minors and to allow caravan owners to build annexes in caravan parks without a permit.
In December 2014, Prime Minister Tony Abbott appointed Lloyd Australian Public Service Commissioner. Early on in the role, he highlighted the need for public service managers to address concerning levels of unscheduled absences, and suggested that public service middle managers were not making enough decisions or giving enough advice.
John Lloyd is a long time member and former director of the Work Reform and Productivity Unit at economic think-tank Institute of Public Affairs.
Awards
Lloyd was awarded a Public Service Medal in June 2004 for outstanding public service in the field of workplace relations, particularly his contribution to the Royal Commission into the Building and Construction Industry.