| 19.1 |
Where required by the University and accepted by the staff member, a Trades and Services staff member who is required to act in a position of higher classification than that which the Trades and Services Staff member occupies shall be paid a higher duties allowance which shall be regarded as salary for calculating all other types of allowances including overtime. The minimum period of acting in a higher level position is 2 hours 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. |
| 19.2 |
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. |
| 19.3 |
The higher duties allowance shall be the difference between the Trades and Services Staff member’s salary and the salary payable had the Trades and Services staff member been promoted to the higher office. If the Trades and Services Staff member is not performing the full range of the duties of the higher level position, they shall be paid a pro rata amount. |
| 19.4 |
A Trades and Services member shall be eligible to receive an increment at the higher level position if they have served for a continuous period of twelve months at the higher level, or a total period of twelve months over a twenty-four month period. |
| 19.5 |
If a Trades and Services member is promoted to the higher level position, they shall not suffer any reduction in remuneration and shall be promoted on the same incremental level at which they were acting and any periods of acting at the higher level shall be taken into account in determining future increments. |
| 19.6 |
A Trades and Services staff member who is acting in a higher level position shall be entitled to continue to receive a higher duties allowance when they proceed on paid leave or a rostered day off, other than long service leave, provided the acting in the higher level position would have continued but for the taking of leave. |
