Enterprise Agreement 2011-14 - Department of Climate Change

Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency – Enterprise Agreement 2011-14
ACT Government Service, the employee’s unused accrued annual leave and personal/carers
leave (however described) will be recognised.
27.3. Where a person is engaged as an ongoing employee, and immediately prior to the
engagement the person was employed as a non-ongoing APS employee, the Secretary may,
at the employee’s request, recognise any accrued annual leave and personal/carers leave
(however described), provided there is no break in continuity of service. Any recognised
annual leave excludes any accrued leave paid out on separation.
27.4. Use of these accrued leave credits and future entitlements is in accordance with this
Agreement.
27.5. Prior service will be recognised for long service leave purposes in accordance with the Long
Service Leave (Commonwealth Employees) Act 1976 if the break in service is not more than
12 months.
27.6. Where an employee is employed after having been deemed to have resigned following
marriage under the former section 49 of the Public Service Act 1922, or is re-engaged
following invalidity retirement or termination from the APS on the grounds of invalidity, the
employee will be credited with any personal/carer’s leave credits held at the time of ceasing
the earlier period of employment.
28. Annual leave
28.1. The purpose of annual leave is to provide employees with the opportunity for a reasonable
break from work. Therefore, it is important that employees take leave within a reasonable
period of its accrual, and that leave planning is an integral part of work planning and task
allocation for managers. The timing and duration of annual leave is to be mutually agreed
between the employee and manager unless the leave is for health and/or safety reasons.
28.2. Employees are entitled to the equivalent of 20 days, for each full year worked. Annual leave
will accrue daily, and be credited monthly.
28.3. The taking of annual leave is subject to the approval of the manager.
28.4. Where ‘leave without pay not to count as service’ has been granted in the accrual period,
annual leave will be adjusted on the day of accrual as follows:
o where aggregated absences for periods totalling 30 calendar days or less, the annual
leave accrual is not affected;
o where aggregated full day absences total more than 30 calendar days, the entire
period of leave without pay is deducted from the number of calendar days to count
as service in the formula at clause 28.5; and
o where leave without pay covers an entire calendar year, no annual leave credit
accrues for that year.
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