Purchased Leave. This clause does not apply to casual Employees.
60.1 An Employee may, if mutually agreed with the Employer, purchase up to 20 working days (pro-rated for part time Employees) additional paid leave in a twelve-month period at ordinary pay. The additional paid leave is purchased through salary deductions made over the whole year. The amount deducted will correspond with the amount of leave purchased.
Purchased Leave. Purchased Leave provides staff with the opportunity to take up to four weeks leave in addition to their normal four weeks of recreation leave. This provision allows greater flexibility in employment for staff members who wish to use this provision to address personal issues of family/work balance, and for staff who wish to extend their leave options for other personal reasons. It is intended that this arrangement would be entered into on an annual agreement with the employee required to submit thei application to the CEO for consideration. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, an employee may, with the agreement of the CEO, work between 48 weeks and 51 weeks per year. Access to this entitlement may only be granted on application from an Employee and cannot be required as a precondition for employment. The assessment of the application from the employee will be done in consideration of business needs and the impacts on maintaining service delivery internally and/or externally. Where the Authority and an Employee agree to a reduction in the number of working weeks the Employee will receive additional annual leave as follows: 48/52 weeks Additional 4 weeks‟ leave (8 weeks in total) 49/52 weeks Additional 3 weeks‟ leave (7 weeks in total) 50/52 weeks Additional 2 weeks‟ leave (6 weeks in total) 51/52 weeks Additional 1 week‟s leave (5 weeks in total) The Employee will receive a salary equal to the period worked (eg 48 weeks) which will be spread over a 52 week period; and accrual of sick leave and long service leave by the Employee shall remain unchanged. As an alternative to entering into an arrangement, an Employee may request that one or more weeks of his or her annual leave entitlement be converted to two weeks‟ leave on half pay. The Employer will endeavour to accommodate Employee requests for arrangements under this clause, and where such requests are granted will make proper arrangements to ensure that the workloads of other Employees are not unduly affected and that excessive overtime is not required to be performed by other Employees as a result of these arrangements. An Employee may revert to ordinary 52 week employment by giving the Employer no less than four weeks‟ written notice. Where an Employee so reverts to 52 week employment, appropriate pro rata salary adjustments will be made.
Purchased Leave. 75.1 Full-time Employees may purchase additional annual leave, with the agreement of the Employer.
75.2 The amount of additional leave that may be purchased varies according to the classification of the Employee as follows:
(a) Employees other than Dental Assistants employed by DHSV or Ballarat Health Service
(i) Full-time Employees may purchase up to 4 weeks additional leave per year and, with the agreement of the Employer, work between 48 and 51 weeks per year. Approval rests with the Employer, who may legitimately take into account operational needs and work requirements. Agreement will not be unreasonably withheld.
(ii) Where the Employer and Employee agree to a reduction in the number of working weeks, the Employee will receive additional leave as follows: 48/52 weeks 4 weeks 8 weeks 49/52 weeks 3 weeks 7 weeks 50/52 weeks 2 weeks 6 weeks 51/52 weeks 1 weeks 5 weeks
Purchased Leave. 42/52 ARRANGEMENT
29.1 The Employer and the employee may agree to enter into an arrangement whereby the employee can purchase up to ten (10) weeks additional leave.
29.2 The Employer will assess each application for a 42/52 salary arrangement on its merits and give consideration to the personal circumstances of the employee seeking the arrangement.
29.3 Where an employee is applying for purchased leave of between five (5) and 10 weeks, the Employer will give priority access to those employees with caring responsibilities.
29.4 In order to access approved Purchased Leave, an employee must:
(a) satisfy the Employer’s accrued leave management policy; and
(b) take one (1) week Annual Leave if purchasing nine (9) weeks’ leave; or
(c) take two (2) weeks Annual Leave if purchasing 10 weeks leave.
29.5 Notwithstanding subclauses 29.4(b) and 29.4(c), the Employer may allow an employee to access Purchased Leave before they have accessed one (1) or two (2) weeks’ Annual Leave, whichever applies, where the employee requests it. Any such request may only be refused by the Employer if there are reasonable grounds to do so.
29.6 The provisions of subclauses 29.4(b) and 29.4(c) do not apply to an employee who purchases less than nine (9) weeks leave.
29.7 An agreement to take reduced salary spread over the 52 weeks of the year will yield the following amounts of Purchased Leave. Number of weeks salary spread over 52 weeks Number of weeks purchased leave 42 10 43 9 44 8 45 7 46 6 47 5 48 4 49 3 50 2 51 1
(a) Purchased Leave is not able to be accrued. The employee is entitled to pay in lieu of any Purchased Leave not taken. In the event that the employee is unable to take such Purchased Leave, their salary will be adjusted in the last pay period in February to take account of the fact that time worked during the year was not included in their salary.
(b) Untaken Purchased Leave will be paid out at the rate at which it was purchased.
(a) Where an employee who is in receipt of an allowance provided for in Clause 52 – Higher Duties Allowance proceeds on any period of Purchased Leave, the employee will not be entitled to receive payment of the allowance for any period of Purchased Leave.
(b) Other than when an employee is on a period of Purchased Leave, the Higher Duties Allowance component of an employee’s salary will not be affected by an agreement to reduce the employee’s salary for Purchased Leave Purposes.
Purchased Leave. 42/52 ARRANGEMENT
Purchased Leave. An employee may apply to enter into an agreement with the University to purchase either two (2) weeks or four (4) weeks additional annual leave in a twelve (12) month period. The purchased leave will be funded through the reduction in the employee's ordinary rate of pay. To calculate the purchased leave rate of pay, the employee's ordinary salary rate will be reduced by the number of weeks of purchased leave and then annualised at a pro rata rate over the twelve (12) month period.
Purchased Leave. (a) Purchased leave is where Employees have planned absences of two weeks of leave which is funded by salary deductions spread evenly over the year. This allows Employees to continue to receive pay during such leave.
(b) Purchased leave must be utilised within the twelve months in which it is purchased.
(c) Purchased leave counts as service for all purposes.
(d) Applications for purchased leave must be made by a date nominated by the Employer.
(e) The Employer’s approval of purchased leave will be based on the operational requirements of the Employer, having regard to the personal needs and family responsibilities of staff.
(f) Once a period of purchased leave has been approved, it may only be revoked by the Employer where exceptional circumstances exist. In the event of revocation, any accumulated leave may be paid out to the Employee, or the leave deferred to a date mutually agreed by Employer and Employee.
(g) Where an Employee leaves the Employer during a year in which purchased leave has been approved, final payment will be adjusted to take account of deductions not yet made and leave not taken.
(h) Annual leave loading is not payable on purchased leave.
Purchased Leave. An employee can make a written request to Anglicare SQ to purchase additional leave. A summary of accessing this entitlement is:
(a) An employee, other than a casual or fixed term employee, may apply to purchase up to 2 weeks’ additional leave over a period of 12 months;
(b) Purchase leave cannot be taken at ½ pay.
(c) The deduction amount will be calculated as per the formula and will be deducted from the employee’s fortnightly wage/salary;
(d) Any changes to the employee’s hours or wage rate during this period, their deductions will be varied by Payroll;
(e) Purchase leave will count as service for all purposes;
(f) Purchased leave must be schedule within 12 months period in which it was purchased and taken within 15 months from the purchase d leave start date.
(g) If leave is not taken within the 15 month period it will be paid out to the employee after confirmation is given by the employee’s manager that a leave application has not been made. Leave will be paid out using the dollar value of the leave that has been deducted and not at the employee’s current hourly rate.
(h) An employee must accrue and pay for the additional leave before it can be taken. The full amount of accrued purchased leave does not need to be taken at any one given time and may be divided over the 15 month period with the Manager’s approval.
(i) cannot be accrue past the limited stated in the policy;
Purchased Leave. 42.1 An Employee may, with the agreement of the Employer, work less than 52 weeks per year. Access to this entitlement may only be granted on application from an Employee and cannot be required as a precondition for employment.
42.2 Where the Employer and an Employee agree to a reduction in the number of working weeks under clause 42.1:
42.2.1 the Employee will receive additional converted leave as follows:
42.2.2 The above does not preclude an Employee and the Employer from agreeing to a similar type of arrangement that would provide an Employee with additional converted leave of more than 8 weeks.
42.2.3 the Employee will receive a salary equal to the period worked (e.g. 46 weeks, 49 weeks) which will be spread over a 52 week period; and
42.2.4 accrual of personal leave and long service leave by the Employee shall remain unchanged.
42.3 As an alternative to entering into an arrangement under clause 42.1, an Employee may request that one or more weeks of his or her annual leave entitlement each be converted to two weeks' leave on half pay under clause 39.3.
42.4 The Employer will endeavour to accommodate Employee requests for arrangements under this clause, and where such requests are granted will make proper arrangements to ensure that the workloads of other Employees are not unduly affected and that excessive overtime is not required to be performed by other Employees as a result of these arrangements.
42.5 An Employee may revert to ordinary 52 week employment by giving the Employer no less than four weeks' written notice. Where an Employee so reverts to 52 week employment, appropriate pro rata salary adjustments will be made.
Purchased Leave. (a) The parties agree that a “48/52” flexible work scheme is to be a voluntary scheme whereby a full time or part time Employee can apply to take eight (8) weeks annual leave in a year and receive forty eight (48) weeks’ salary, which would be payable over the full fifty two (52) weeks.
(b) This arrangement will be subject to agreement between the Manager and the Employee, with approval being based on the operational requirements. The Employer reserves the right to decline any application. The 48/52 flexible work scheme is available to all staff members except casual staff.
(c) Purchased Leave may be taken in conjunction with other types of leave. Purchased leave may not be used to break a period of Long Service Leave.
(d) The 48/52 flexible work scheme is intended to provide flexibility in employment for staff members with family responsibilities and for staff who wish to extend their leave options for personal reasons.
(e) All purchased leave and accrued annual leave must be taken during the twelve (12) months period for which approval to participate in the scheme has been given. The additional purchased leave will not attract annual leave loading.
(f) Employees availing themselves of this option will retain leave entitlements accrued prior to converting to 48/52 employment and would then accrue benefits at the 48/52 rate from the date of effect of the change.
(g) The term of the 48/52 scheme will be subject to negotiation between the Employer and Employee. Variation to the agreed term may be initiated by either party subject to three (3) months’ notice. However, in exceptional circumstances e.g. demonstrated financial hardship and with the agreement of the Employer an Employee may be allowed to return to normal employment arrangements by giving four (4) weeks’ notice in writing and this arrangement would cease. The Employee is required to utilise any unused annual leave accrued under the 48/52 arrangements before reverting back to normal annual leave accrual.
(h) Where the Employee’s employment terminates, deductions made for the Purchased Leave not yet taken will be repaid.
