Capability 12 – Public health laboratory testing is the ability to implement and perform methods to detect, characterize, and confirm public health threats. It also includes the ability to report timely data, provide investigative support, and use partnerships to address actual or potential exposure to threat agents in multiple matrices, including clinical specimens and food, water, and other environmental samples. This capability supports passive and active surveillance when preparing for, responding to, and recovering from biological, chemical, and radiological (if a Radiological Laboratory Response Network is established) public health threats and emergencies.
WORKPLACE FLEXIBILITY The employer must ensure that any Individual Flexibility Agreement (IFA) is genuinely agreed to by the employer and the employee and result in the employee being better off overall at the time the IFA is made than the employee would have been if no IFA had been agreed to. 8.1 Notwithstanding any other provision of the Agreement, the employer and an individual employee may agree to vary the application of certain terms of the Agreement to meet the genuine individual needs of the employer and the individual employee. The terms the employer and the individual employee may agree to vary are the application of those permitted under Section 172 of the FW Act, and relates only to:- 8.1.1 arrangements for when work is performed; 8.1.2 salary sacrifice arrangements; 8.1.3 reduction in ordinary hours; and 8.1.4 are not unlawful terms under Section 194 of the FW Act. 8.2 The employer and the individual employee must have genuinely made the IFA without coercion or duress. An IFA can only be entered into after the individual employee has commenced employment with the employer. 8.3 The IFA between the employer and the individual employee must: 8.3.1 be confined to a variation in the application of one or more of the terms listed in Clause 8.1; and 8.4 The IFA between the employer and the individual employee must also: 8.4.1 be in writing, name the parties to the IFA and be signed by the employer and the individual employee and, if the employee is under eighteen (18) years of age, the employee’s parent or guardian; 8.4.2 state each term of the Agreement that the employer and the individual employee have agreed to vary; 8.4.3 detail how the application of each term has been varied by agreement between the employer and the individual employee;