Enterprise Agreement 2011-14 - Department of Climate Change

Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency – Enterprise Agreement 2011-14
significant periods. Where situations in relation to excessive hours do arise, the manager in
consultation with the business unit’s Executive is required, with the employee, to address
the circumstances leading to excessive working hours.
24.3. Executive Level employees and their manager are required to work together to manage
workloads and working hours. Where an Executive Level employee works in excess of
ordinary hours for sustained periods the manager and employee will agree to arrangements
for reasonable time off to recognise the additional effort.
24.4. Executive Level employees should be provided with fair and reasonable access to time off , it
is considered good practice for this to occur as soon as practicable after the additional hours
has been worked.
24.5. Consistent with clause 17.7 an individual may refer a matter relating to access to TOIL to the
Assistant Secretary Human Resources in the event that the provision of TOIL cannot be
addressed in good faith by all parties.
24.6. Executive Level employees should not commence work on any day without having at least
minimum break of eight hours plus reasonable travelling time from the previous day’s duty,
without specific approval from the Secretary.
24.7. Regardless of the bandwidth, Executive Level employees are required to break for at least 30
minutes after five (5) hours of continuous work.
25. Overtime
25.1. APS 1-6 level employees (and their equivalents) will be provided with TOIL or payment of
overtime where they are required by their manager to perform work:
o outside the bandwidth;
o on a public holiday;
o in excess of a standard day within the bandwidth (7 hours 30 minutes on any one
day); or
o outside the hours of a part- time employee’s agreement.
25.2. TOIL is the standard form of recompense for all overtime, subject to the provisions of this
section.
25.3. Managers will authorise the payment of overtime in circumstances where, due to the nature
of work and/or the significant overtime performed, it is unlikely that an employee will be
able to take TOIL within three months of the overtime having been performed, or where the
employee requests payment to meet costs incurred as a result of having performed the
overtime. Where payment of overtime is authorised, the payment will be calculated using
the rates set out in clauses 25.8.
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