Enterprise Agreement 2011-14 - Department of Climate Change

Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency – Enterprise Agreement 2011-14
ATTACHMENT B – KEY TERMS
Additional Pay
point
A salary point for Executive Level classifications that are above the normal salary
range. Movement to these pay points are at the discretion of the Secretary.
Agreement The Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency (the Department)
Enterprise Agreement 2011 - 2014
APS the Australian Public Service
EA this Enterprise Agreement
Employee An employee of the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency and has
the same meaning as the Public Service Act 1999 for ‘APS employee’
Employer means the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency Secretary
(Delegate), on behalf of the Commonwealth of Australia
Excess Employee
Family
An employee is ‘excess’ when:
• they are included in a group of employees in the Department, comprising a
greater number than is necessary for the efficient and economical working of the
Department;
• due to technological or other changes in the work methods of the Department, or
structural or other changes in the nature, extent or organisation of the functions
of the Department; ; or
• the duties usually performed by the employee are to be performed at a different
locality and the employee is not willing to perform those duties at the new locality,
and the Secretary has determined that the employee is excess to the
Department’s requirements.
Means a relation by blood, marriage, adoption, fostering or traditional kinship, or a
partner who stands in a bona fide domestic relationship with an employee (without
discrimination as to sexual orientation).
Hard Barrier The top salary point for each classification level. Movement beyond the hard
barrier is through merit selection.
Immediate Family A person who is related by blood, marriage, adoption, fostering or traditional
kinship, has a strong affinity with the employee or a partner who stands in a bona
fide domestic relationship with the employee without discrimination as to sexual
preference.
The following are members of an employee’s “Immediate Family”:
a spouse/partner, a child or an adult child, parent, grandparent, grandchild or
sibling of the employee;
has a strong affinity with the employee; and
a child or an adult child, parent, grandparent, grandchild or sibling of a
spouse/Partner of the employee.
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