Purchased Additional Leave. 6.14.1 Permanent employees, on request, may be granted between one (1) and four (4) weeks unpaid leave per year to be taken in blocks of at least one week and which may be taken in conjunction with other leave. Where you elect to purchase additional leave you must nominate your intention once per year.
6.14.2 You may purchase additional leave through a deduction from your annual base salary which will be averaged over the year and reflected in your fortnightly salary.
6.14.3 If you are ill while on leave, you will be re-credited with that period of leave on production of a medical certificate.
6.14.4 This leave will not accrue and if a credit exists, readjustment will be made at the end of the year.
6.14.5 If you leave employment with us during the year, we will reconcile your records to ascertain, if any money is owed to you or us.
Purchased Additional Leave.
a. Eligible part and full-time employees, who work 22.8 hours or more each week, may purchase additional leave, in accordance with CPA policies.
b. The purchased options are:
1. One, two or four or six weeks
2. Three months (13 weeks)
3. Six months
4. Twelve months
c. Pre-purchased leave enables an employee to acquire additional leave in exchange for a proportional reduction in the employee’s remuneration over an agreed period.
d. Pre-purchased leave can be taken in conjunction with any paid leave.
e. Pre-purchased leave counts as service for all purposes. Employees continue to accrue their normal entitlements whilst on pre-purchased leave (e.g. annual, sick and long service leave). They will be expected to take up their normal duties on returning from their pre- purchased leave.
f. The manager has the right to decline or renegotiate an employee’s application for pre- purchase additional leave, if the proposed dates for its use will conflict with operational requirements and/or reduce service delivery to clients and their families. Where an employee is promoted or transferred to another role/work site, they will have to confirm or renegotiate, with their new manager, the timing for taking the pre-purchased leave.
g. These options are not available to casual staff and employees contracted for periods of less than twelve (12) months.
Purchased Additional Leave a) Where approved by the delegate, employees may purchase from one to four weeks additional leave each year. The purchased leave will be credited to the employee on its purchase, and must be taken within 12 months from the date that the leave was credited to the employee.
b) Purchased leave must be taken at full pay unless otherwise approved by the delegate as an exceptional circumstance.
Purchased Additional Leave. (a) Permanent employees, on request, may be granted between one (1) and four (4) weeks unpaid leave once per year to be taken in blocks of at least one week and may be taken in conjunction with other leave.
(b) You may purchase additional leave through a deduction from your annual base salary which will be averaged over the year and reflected in your fortnightly salary.
(c) If you are ill while on leave, on production of a medical certificate you will be re- credited with that period of leave covered by the certificate.
(d) This leave will not accrue and if a credit exists, readjustment will be made at the end of the year.
(e) If you leave employment with Airservices during the year, Airservices will reconcile your records to ascertain if any money is owed to you or Airservices.
Purchased Additional Leave. (a) Permanent employees, on request, may be granted between one (1) and four (4) weeks unpaid leave to be taken in blocks of at least one week and may be takenin conjunction with other leave.
(b) An employee may purchase additional leave through a deduction from an employee’s annual base salary which will be averaged over the year and reflectedin an employee’s fortnightly salary.
(c) If an employee is ill while on leave, on production of a medical certificate an employee will be re-credited with that period of leave covered by the medical certificate.
Purchased Additional Leave. Where approved by the Secretary, Employees may purchase from 1 to 4 weeks additional leave each year. The purchased leave will be credited to the Employee on its purchase, and must be taken within 12 months from the date that the leave was credited to the Employee.
Purchased Additional Leave a) Where approved by the delegate, employees may purchase from one to four weeks additional leave each year. The purchased leave will be credited to the employee on its purchase, and must be taken within 12 months from the date that the leave was credited to the employee.
b) Where approved by the delegate, employees may purchase from one to eight weeks additional leave, from the time of the expected birth, adoption or long-term fostering of a child, and to be taken within 12 months of the birth, adoption or fostering of a child.
c) Purchased leave must be taken at full pay unless otherwise approved by the delegate as an exceptional circumstance.
Purchased Additional Leave. (a) Permanent employees, on request, may be granted between one (1) and four
Purchased Additional Leave. Notwithstanding the terms specified elsewhere in this Agreement, the following leave option is available to employees. To exercise this option, an employee must make written application in accordance with company processes.
(i) At the request of an employee, the company may agree to an arrangement ("the arrangement") whereby the employee accrues either 1 (51/52), 2 (50/52), 3 (49/52) or 4 (48/52) weeks’ additional annual leave in lieu of wages of the equivalent value.
(ii) Purchased leave will not accrue from one year to the next and the balance of purchased leave not taken will be paid out at the end of the accrual year.
(iii) Both the agreement to the arrangement and the time at which the additional leave is taken will be dependent on the operational requirements of the work location where the employee works at the particular time.
(iv) Unless otherwise agreed between the employee and the company, an employee who enters into an arrangement under this subclause does so in blocks of 12 months.
(v) For the purposes of this subclause and without limiting the meaning of the term, "operational requirements" may include the: ▪ availability of suitable leave cover, if required; ▪ cost implications; ▪ impact on client/patient service requirements; ▪ impact on the work of other employees; and ▪ employee’s existing leave liabilities.
(vi) The portion of the employee's wage to be forfeited will be calculated as a fortnightly amount and their fortnightly wage will be decreased by that amount for the duration of the arrangement.
(vii) All annual leave taken during the course of the arrangement will be paid at the reduced rate.
(viii) The additional leave will continue to accrue while the employee is on leave during the course of the arrangement.
(ix) The reduced wage will be used for all purposes during the course of the arrangement.
(x) The additional leave will not attract leave loading.
(xi) It is the responsibility of the employee to investigate the impact of any of this arrangement on their allowances, superannuation and taxation.
