Enterprise Bargaining Agreement
(Trades & Services Staff - Catering & Retail, Cleaning & Caretaking, & Miscellaneous Services Staff) 2000

Part 4 - Conditions applying to cleaning and caretaking staff

Section 2 - Salaries and Related Matters

106. Part-time Loadings
107. Higher Duties and Mixed Functions

This Part shall apply to trades and services staff engaged in cleaning and/or caretaking, including Building Attendants/Stewards of Monash Unicomm.

106. PART-TIME LOADINGS

106.1 Monash Unicomm part-time staff members are entitled to payment of a part-time loading of 8% of the staff member's ordinary rate of pay. All other part-time staff members employed by the University are entitled to payment of a part-time loading of 15% of their ordinary rate of pay.

106.2 All penalty payments payable to part-time staff members for overtime, shift work, or work on weekends or holidays will be calculated on the basis of the staff member's ordinary rate of pay exclusive of any part-time loading. Such part-time loading will be paid in addition to any penalty payment payable.

107. HIGHER DUTIES AND MIXED FUNCTIONS

107.1 A staff member who is required to act in a position of higher classification than that which the staff member occupies shall be paid an allowance computed in accordance with this clause.

107.2 Qualification for allowance

A staff member shall be eligible for payment of a higher duties allowance where the period of acting service in the higher position is continuous for up to two hours, in which case the staff member shall be paid the higher duties allowance for the time so worked. Provided that where the period of acting service in the higher position is continuous for more than two hours during one day or shift, the staff member shall be paid the higher duties allowance for such day or shift.

107.3 Where a staff member qualifies for payment of a higher duties allowance the allowance shall be payable from the date the staff member commenced to perform the higher duties.

107.4 Where a staff member is eligible for payment of a higher duties allowance he/she shall be paid an allowance equal to the difference between the salary of the staff member and the salary payable had the staff member been promoted to the higher office.

107.5 Where a staff member performs the duties of a higher office for periods that are not continuous but in aggregate total more than 12 months, the staff member shall upon the completion of each period totalling 12 months be granted salary increments applicable to the higher office provided that:

• for the first increment the total 12 month period of higher duties is completed within the period of 24 months preceding that completion;
• for subsequent increments the total requisite period in which higher duties are performed is completed within a period of time equal to twice the total period of performance of higher duties that immediately precedes that completion.

107.6 For the purposes of clause 107.5 above where a staff member performs the duties of another office having the same or higher classification than the higher office for which the staff member was receiving a higher duties allowance, these duties shall be deemed to be performance of duties in the higher office.

107.7 Where a staff member who is performing the duties of a higher office is permanently promoted to that office the staff member shall not suffer any reduction in remuneration and shall receive the same increments as if the staff member had during the period of temporary service in the higher office been the permanent occupant of that office.

107.8 Where a staff member is permanently promoted to an office and prior to promotion had performed the duties of a higher office of the same classification as the office to which the staff member is promoted but is not performing those duties when promoted, the period for which the staff member performed those duties shall be taken into account for the purposes of incremental advancement in the same manner as it would have been taken into account under clause 107.5 above if the staff member had not been promoted.

107.9 Where a staff member who is or has been performing the duties of a higher classification than the office the duties of which the staff member is or has been temporarily performing, the remuneration of the staff member upon promotion shall be the same as the remuneration which the staff member would have received had this period of service in the higher office been service in the office of lower classification.

107.10 A staff member who at the time of proceeding on approved leave with pay (other than long service leave) was in receipt of an allowance under this clause shall continue to be paid such an allowance if the Head of the administrative unit certifies that the allowance would have been paid but for the granting of the leave provided that:

• where the leave with pay is less than leave on full pay payment of the allowance shall be made on a pro rata basis;
• where a staff member has received an allowance in respect of acting in an unbroken series of higher positions up to the time of proceeding on leave with pay, the staff member shall continue to receive the allowance during the leave if the Head of the Administration Unit or Department certifies that the allowance would have been paid in respect of acting in any one of those positions but for the grant of leave.

107.11 Where a staff member who in accordance with a duty roster regularly relieves in a higher classified position during any rostered days off, if the occupant of that position proceeds on paid leave (other than long service leave) and the Head of the Administrative Unit or Department certifies that but for proceeding on the paid leave the staff member would have been entitled to be paid higher duties allowance for duty performed as part of the staff member's normal rostered duty during the period of such leave, the staff member shall be paid in respect of such leave the higher duties allowance which would have accrued to the staff member in accordance with the roster, provided that where the leave with pay is less than leave on full pay, payment of the allowance shall be made on a pro rata basis.

107.12 When higher duties allowance payments are included in leave with pay in accordance with clause 107.10 or 107.11 above, the leave period in respect of which the payments are included shall be service for the purpose of the granting of increments in accordance with this clause.

107.13 An allowance payable to a staff member under this clause shall be regarded as salary for the purposes of calculating all other types of allowance including overtime.

107.14 A staff member shall not be penalised in any way for a refusal to perform higher duties.