FaHCSIA Collective Agreement - 2009 to 2011
Part 1 - Purpose and Responsibilities
Part 2 - FaHCSIA Employment Framework
Part 3 - Performance and Capability
- Salary increases
- Salaries and allowances
- Flexible remuneration and conditions
- Payment of salaries
- Recovery of overpayments and other debts to FaHCSIA
- Classification structures
- Work level standards
- Salary advancement
- Salary on engagement, promotion and assignment of duties
- Temporary performance of other duties
- Superannuation
- Non-ongoing employees engaged for duties that are irregular or intermittent
- Supported salary rates
- Death of an employee
- Flexible remuneration packaging
Part 5 - Increasing Productivity
Part 6 - Balancing Work and Personal Life
- Work life balance information and referral service
- School holiday family care subsidy
- Extra family care costs
- Family care rooms
- Mature age employees
- Other flexible and family friendly working arrangements
Part 7 - Hours of Work and Attendance
- Recording hours worked
- Hours of work
- Flextime and other flexible working arrangements
- Part-time employment
- Job sharing
- Home Based Work (HBW)
- Overtime
- Emergency duty
- Rest period
- Retriction duty
- Time off in lieu of overtime and restriction duty
- Overtime meal allowance
- Executive level employees – entitlement to overtime and other related payments
- Executive level employees - time off in lieu
- Public holidays
- Christmas and Easter closedowns
- Notification of absence
- Portability of accrued leave entitlements
- Annual leave
- Voluntary cash out of annual leave
- Personal leave
- Accrual of personal leave credits.
- Transition to daily accrual and monthly crediting of personal leave
- Approval of personal leave
- Medical or other supporting documentation
- Where an employee has insufficient personal leave credits
- Termination of employment on invalidity grounds.
- Interaction with other leave types.
- Return to work
- Long service leave
- Maternity leave
- Miscellaneous leave
- NAIDOC week leave
- Cultural leave
- Moving days
- Community volunteering leave
- Purchased leave
- Sabbatical leave
- War service sick leave
- Adoptive leave
- Parental leave
- Reimbursement of costs on cancellation of leave
Part 9 - A Healthy, Safe and Respectful Work Environment
- Occupational health and safety (OHS)
- Influenza vaccinations
- Promoting good health
- A discrimination and harassment free work environment
- A diverse work environment
- Environmental initiatives
- Driver training
Part 10 - Consultation and Communication
- Freedom of association
- Employee representation
- Consultation
- Workplace consultative forum
- Communication facilities
- Introduction of change
Part 11 - Review of Employment Decisions and Actions
Part 12 - Preventing and Settling Disputes
Part 13 - Salaries and Classification Structures
- APS classification structure
- FaHCSIA trainee broadband designation
- FaHCSIA graduate broadband designation
- Cadet APS and research officers
- FaHCSIA legal broadband designations
- FaHCSIA Public Affairs Officers (PAO) broadband designations
Part 14 - Allowances and Reimbursements
- First aid officer allowance
- Fire warden allowance
- Volunteering allowance
- Community language allowance
- Departmental liaison officer allowance
- Motor vehicle allowance
- Allowance for impact of building work
- Rate of allowance
- Formula for calculating the rate of allowance
- Assistance with relocation expenses
- Employer initiated moves
- Employee initiated moves.
- Reasonable relocation expenses
- Disturbance allowance
- Term transfers
- Excess Travelling Time (ETT)
- Excess fares
- Loss or damage to clothing or personal effects
- Tropical and temperate clothing allowance
- Allowance rates – adjustment
Part 15 - Travelling on FaHCSIA Business
- Travel allowance
- Adjustment of allowances
- Excessive costs
- Review of travelling allowance
- Time off after long business travel
- Class of air travel
- Airline club membership
- Assistance with public transport and parking costs
- Overseas travel
Part 16 - Remote Locality Assistance
- Remote locality assistance allowance
- Remote locality leave fares
- Additional leave fares – Nhulunbuy
- Accrual for eligible employees
- Leave fares – Darwin, Cairns and Townsville
- Level of assistance towards leave fares
- Other fares assistance
- Additional annual leave for remote localities
- Reassignment from remote localities
- Establishment of new FaHCSIA remote localities
- Employee contribution to staff housing
- Definitions
- Review of remote locality conditions
Part 17 - Resignation, Retirement, Redeployment, Redundancy and Reduction
- Resignation and retirement
- Redeployment, redundancy and reduction
- Introduction
- Definition
- Notification and consultation
- Discussion period
- Voluntary redundancy
- Redundancy payment
- Calculating service for redundancy pay purposes
- Period of notice – termination with a voluntary redundancy
- Involuntary redundancy provisions (retention, redeployment and reduction in classification)
- Period of notice – termination of the retention period
- Breaches of the aps code of conduct and underperformance during the retention period