Salary Packaging Procedure

Section 9. Changing or terminating the package

The salary packaging year runs from the 1 April to 31 March, consistent with the FBT year.

Staff may elect to commence/cease packaging at any time. However, when packaging involves salary packaging of items such as lap tops, PDAs and mobile phones, applications must be made immediately after the purchase has been made. Packaging must be (or commence) in the same FBT year/Tax year as the purchase was made. Retrospective purchases will not normally be packagable.

A staff member may request changes to the structure of his/her remuneration package once per annum (on 1 April) for consideration by the University.

In addition, a staff member may renegotiate his/her package where one or more of the following events occur:

• any change in applicable legislation which will adversely affect all or some of the elements of the staff member's remuneration package;
• the staff member divorces or separates from his/her partner;
• the staff member is unfit for duty due to illness or injury and has exhausted his/her entitlement to paid leave at full rates of pay;
• the staff member has taken extended leave (including parental leave) and has exhausted his/her entitlement to paid leave at full rates of pay; and
• other events or circumstances approved by the University on a case by case basis.

If a staff member leaves the University during a year in which he/she has salary packaged, the staff member's entitlement to receive benefits stops and their package is ruled off and reconciled at the termination date.

Monies owing are off-set against any salary, leave and other remuneration that may be due and payable to staff members at the termination date. The University reserves the right to take legal action to recover all monies owing by staff members or former staff members of the University