The Department of Defence has imposed at short notice a moratorium on contracting of recently separated Defence personnel by defence industry, Australian Defence Magazine reports.
The moratorium came into effect on 7 August and in a joint directive document sighted by ADM, Chief of Defence Force General Angus Campbell and Defence Secretary Greg Moriarty have directed that any Australian Public Service (APS) or full- or part-time members of the ADF (SERCAT 6 & 7) who have separated in the past 12 months can only be contracted by defence industry “by exception”.
