Relocation Allowance An employee who is promoted and required by agency policy to relocate his residence shall be granted time off with pay for one workday for this purpose. In addition, the employee shall be granted travel time to the new location based on the most direct route. No employee will be credited with more than the number of hours in the employee’s regular workday and such time shall not be counted as hours worked for the purpose of computing compensatory time or overtime.
Separation Allowance If a regular full-time or regular part-time employee resigns within thirty (30) days of receiving notice of layoff, the employee shall be entitled to a separation allowance of two (2) weeks for each year of continuous service to a maximum of (26) weeks pay, and, on production of receipts from an approved educational program, within twelve (12)months of resignation, may be reimbursed for tuition fees up to a of three thousand dollars ($3,000). The displacement procedure prescribed by Article shall not operate to permit more than two displacements and the third person so displaced shall only have the right to displace another employee who has lesser bargaining unit and who is the least senior employee in all lower or identical paying classifications in the bargaining unit. This will also apply to bumping into part-time which will mean another two (2) bumps provided that the full-time employee has more seniority. The Hospital shall give each employee the bargaining unit who has actually been laid off following the completion of the bumping process, and who is to be laid off for a period of more than thirteen (13)weeks, three (3)months notice in writing of the employee’s xxx-xxxxx at the discretion of the Hospital, pay in lieu of notice. In other cases of lay-off, that exceeds two weeks, the shall give an employee in the bargaining unit acquired one weeks notice, provided however, such notice shall not be required if the lay-off occurs because of emergencies. For example: power failure, act of God, equipment breakdown, or any other conditions beyond the reasonable control of the Hospital. Article as long as there is not a laid off senior employee who is eligible for an employee who is laid off, or an employee who has displaced an employee in another position as a result of the layoff, or an employee to work in a different position than the one the employee held prior to the layoff, be entitled to to the position the employee held prior to the layoff should it become vacant within twenty-four (24) months of the layoff, provided the employee remains qualified and able to the duties of the position. Employees who have been laid off (i.e. are no longer in the Hospital) for up to (24) calendar months shall be recalled to or lower-rated classifications in the order of their seniority, provided they have the qualifications and ability to perform the available work and this not require posting. The hospital shall notify the employee of recall by registered mail, addressed to the last address on record with the hospital. The notification shall state the job to which the employee is eligible to be and the date and time at which the employee is to report for work. An employee given notice of recall by registered have three (3) days after receipt of such notice to the employee's intention, in to return to work on the date specified by the Employer or another date as mutually agreed. Any employee who does not so shall be deemed to have ceased with the Employer. The Employer be entitled to rely, for ail purposes, on the latest address of the employee contained in the records of the Employer. No new employee shall be hired in a in which a layoff has taken place employees laid off from that classification or displaced out of the classification who have been laid off or displaced for up to twenty-four (24) calendar months and are eligible for recall as prescribed in this article have been given the opportunity to to work in the classification from which the employees were laid off or displaced.
Education Allowance Provisions in existing Collective Agreements providing for educational allowances shall be continued in effect.
Service Core Allowance The company shall pay $0.95 per hour for all work carried out in construction of service core. This allowance will be adjusted annually (effective from 1 June) in accordance with CPI movements (All Groups, Melbourne) for the preceding 12 months to March (increases to be rounded to the nearest 5 cents).
Vacation Allowance Employees in permanent positions are entitled to vacation with pay. Accrual is based upon straight time hours of working time per calendar month of service and begins on the date of appointment to a permanent position. Increased accruals begin on the first of the month following the month in which the employee qualifies. Accrual for portions of a month shall be in minimum amounts of one (1) hour calculated on the same basis as for partial month compensation pursuant to Section 5.6 of this MOU. Vacation credits may be taken in one (1) minute increments but may not be taken during the first six (6) months of employment (not necessarily synonymous with probationary status) except where sick leave has been exhausted; and none shall be allowed in excess of actual accrual at the time vacation is taken.
- Separation Allowances (a) Where an employee resigns within 30 days after receiving notice of layoff pursuant to article 9.08(a)(ii) that his or her position will be eliminated, he or she shall be entitled to a separation allowance of two (2) weeks' salary for each year of continuous service to a maximum of twelve (12) weeks' pay, and, on production of receipts from an approved educational program, within twelve (12) months of resignation, may be reimbursed for tuition fees up to a maximum of three thousand ($3,000) dollars.
(b) Where an employee resigns later than 30 days after receiving notice pursuant to Article 9.08(a)(ii) that his or her position will be eliminated, he or she shall be entitled to a separation allowance of four (4) weeks' salary, and, on production of receipts from an approved educational program, within twelve (12) months of resignation, may be reimbursed for tuition fees up to a maximum of one thousand two hundred and fifty ($1,250) dollars."
Moving Allowance With the prior approval of the Agency Head and/or his/her Designee concerning reimbursable costs, employees involuntarily transferred to a new job location fifty miles or more from the employee’s old residence than the old residence was from the old job location shall be reimbursed for receipted moving expenses, as provided in the IRS guidelines. For the purposes of this section, promotions and the exercise of any bumping option shall be considered as a voluntary transfer. Notwithstanding the above, at the discretion of the Agency Head and/or his/her Designee, employees may be reimbursed for moving expenses.
9.6.1 If an employee, whose moving expenses (all or a part) have been paid, resigns within one calendar year of the move, the Agency Head and/or his/her Designee may require the employee to reimburse the Agency for a portion of the moving expenses, based on the length of time the employee worked after the move.
9.6.2 Employees who have been involuntarily transferred or have exercised bumping rights to another geographical location of the State shall be allowed up to twenty-four hours of time off with pay for the purpose of attending to their personal affairs in their present location and establishing their personal affairs in their new location. Such time off from work must be approved in advance by the Agency Head and/or his/her Designee.
Training Allowance Operators who are required by the Employer to provide training to a specified level and to certify to the competency of the employees so trained shall receive twelve dollars ($12) per day while training. In such cases, the most senior qualified operator with the capability to provide training in the required class of equipment shall be given the opportunity to provide such training.
Meal Allowance A shift worker who works a qualifying shift of eight hours or the rostered shift, whichever is the greater, and who is required to work more than one hour beyond the end of the shift (excluding any break for a meal) shall be paid a meal allowance of $7.95, or, at the option of the employer, be provided with a meal.
Overtime Meal Allowance Employees required to work more than two (2) hours overtime consecutive with a shift shall be provided with a meal by the Employer.
