WORKLIFE FLEXIBILITY. VOLUNTARY FLEXIBLE WORKING ARRANGEMENTS
10.1 The parties acknowledge the mutual benefit to the employer and employee of Voluntary Flexible Working Arrangements (VFWA) to balance work and other (including family) commitments.
10.1.1 Agencies will promote and improve the awareness of VFWAs in the public sector during the life of this Enterprise Agreement.
10.1.2 A Chief Executive will consider an employee’s request to participate in a VFWA having regard both to the operational needs of the agency or particular workplace, and the employee’s circumstances.
10.1.3 This clause applies for the period an employee participates in a VFWA.
a) Subject to this clause, the salary or wages payable to an employee, or applicable to a position, where the employee elects to participate in a VFWA, will be adjusted to take account of the VFWA in which the employee is participating, notwithstanding any other provision in, or Schedule of, this Enterprise Agreement or relevant Award.
b) Where an employee is participating in a Purchased Leave type of VFWA, the rate of pay to be used for calculating overtime payments, leave loading or shift penalties will be the rate of pay that would have been payable had the employee not been participating in the Purchased Leave arrangement.
c) Where an employee is participating in a Compressed Weeks type of VFWA, the nominated normal hours for any day will constitute the employee’s ordinary hours for the day. Overtime will only be payable where the employee is required to work hours in excess of those ordinary hours on any day or in excess of the total of those ordinary hours in a week.
d) Where, on cessation of employment, the employer makes a payment in lieu of notice; or a payment in respect of accrued recreation or long service leave entitlements (instead of transferring leave credits to another employer party to this Enterprise Agreement in the event the employee immediately becomes employed by that employer party), the payment thereof (or the transferred leave credits) shall have regard to any period/s in which the employee participated in a VFWA and be adjusted accordingly. PAID MATERNITY LEAVE AND PAID ADOPTION LEAVE
10.2 Paid maternity leave and paid adoption leave applies in accordance with this clause. This clause comes into effect on 22 December 2009.
10.2.1 Subject to this clause, an employee, other than a casual employee, who has completed 12 months continuous service immediately prior to the birth of the child, or immediately ...
WORKLIFE FLEXIBILITY. Voluntary Flexible Working Arrangements Paid Maternity Leave and Paid Adoption Leave Return to Work on a Part Time Basis Family Carer’s Leave Reimbursement of Reasonable Child Care Costs Reimbursement of Reasonable Travel Costs
WORKLIFE FLEXIBILITY. This clause is similar to the current Agreement. It specifies terms regarding: Voluntary Flexible Working Arrangements; Family Carers Leave; Paid Maternity/Adoption/Surrogacy Leave; Return to Work on a Part Time Basis; and Reimbursement of Reasonable Child Care Costs. The main difference is changes to Family Carers Leave, Paid Partner Leave and inclusion of a new provision ‘employees who are breastfeeding’.
WORKLIFE FLEXIBILITY. Voluntary Flexible Working Arrangements (“VFWA”)
WORKLIFE FLEXIBILITY. This clause is the same as the current clause. wage increases of 3.0% per annum GHWDLOHG L2Q: P aµrity$SSHQGL[ :DJH. VOp¶erative dates are: from the first full pay period (ffpp) on or after 15 December 2022, 15 December 2023, 15 December 2024 and 15 December 2025.
WORKLIFE FLEXIBILITY. This clause is largely the same as the current clause. The differences are outlined as follows.
WORKLIFE FLEXIBILITY. VOLUNTARY FLEXIBLE WORKING ARRANGEMENTS
WORKLIFE FLEXIBILITY. 7 12. REIMBURSEMENT OF REASONABLE CHILD CARE COSTS ................................................... 8 13. REIMBURSEMENT OF REASONABLE TRAVEL COSTS ........................................................... 8
WORKLIFE FLEXIBILITY. 22 36. PRE-EMPLOYMENT SCREENINGS .............................................................................................23 37. LEAD APRONS AND RELIEF BREAKS .......................................................................................24
WORKLIFE FLEXIBILITY. This Clause improves provisions for return to work on a part time basis; treat the employment basis of a second period of maternity leave the same as the pre maternity leave employment basis; and provide for transfer to a safe job during pregnancy or alternatively, paid “no safe job leave” for employees with at least 12 months effective service. Employees who are breastfeeding shall be provided with the facilities and support to enable them to combine the continuation of breastfeeding with their employment. Increased entitlement for partners to access two weeks of accrued sick leave on the birth or adoption of a child.
