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General Orders of the Turks and Caicos Islands Public Service - 1998 Edition7.2.4 The incremental date of all Officers will either be the first day of April or the first day ofOctober. On Appointment or promotion or transfer to an incremental grade an Officer will wait for oneclear calendar year from the date of Appointment or promotion, whichever is the later, and theincrement date will then be the next first day of April or the next first day of October after the end ofthat calendar year, whichever is the soon.7.2.5 Subject to satisfactory performance an Officer serving on an incremental salary may beawarded an increment as it falls due by the Responsible Officer, with the approval of the ChiefSecretary, until the maximum of the scale is reached. No Officer shall be entitled to an increment as ofright.7.2.6 Officers serving on Temporary terms who have served for a continuous period of twelvemonths may also be awarded an increment in accordance with this Order.7.2.7 The Chief Secretary may determine an efficiency bar in any incremental scale and specify theincremental point that can be passed only when efficiency criteria, to be determined by the ChiefSecretary, are met and maintained.7.2.8 Where an Officer is promoted to an Office in another Department arrangements shouldnormally be made whereby he or she assumes the duties of the new Office on the date of promotion. If,however, exceptional circumstances necessitate his or her retention in the former Department beyondthe promotion date, he or she shall be considered to be holding the new Office from the date ofAppointment to it and seconded to the former Department. In any such case the authority of the ChiefSecretary must first be obtained, and the salary of the Officer at the new rate will be borne by theDepartment to which he or she is seconded.Order 7.3Overtime7.3.1 All established Officers are employed and their remuneration is fixed on the assumption thattheir whole time is at the disposal of Government. It follows that if the public interest requires anOfficer to work outside Normal Working Hours he should normally do it without further remuneration.Overtime payments are therefore under the strict and direct control of the Department Head and willnot be paid to Officers in Grade 9 or higher to Police Officers in the rank of Assistant Superintendentor higher.7.3.2 Where excessive occasional overtime is worked by staff in Grade 8 or higher in the publicinterest, then with the prior permission of the Responsible Officer and the Chief Secretary, the Officermay have an entitlement to the equivalent time off in lieu. No Officer may accumulate more time off inlieu than half of" Their annual vacation entitlement. Accurrnrlated tinge off in lieu car, only be takenunder the same conditions as annual leave and may not be carried forward from one period of leaveentitlement to the next - if it cannot be taken in this way then it is forfeit without recompense.7.3.3 Where excessive occasional overtime is worked by Officers in grade 7 or below. or by PoliceOfficers in the rank of Inspector working on a day that is not a Working Day, in the public interest,then with the prior permission of the Responsible Officer and the Chief Secretary, the Officer mayhave an entitlement to overtime pay. The appropriate hourly rates are as follows:for weekdays, the annual salary times 3 and divided by 3597.66, andfor Saturdays, Sundays and Public Holidays, the annual salary times 2 arid divided by1798.83.24
General Orders of the Turks and Caicos Islands Public Service - 1998 Edition7.3.4 Officers who regularly work excessive overtime as part of their normal duties will receive afixed hourly rate for such hours as determined by the Responsible Officer, subject to prior agreementand regular review by the Chief Secretary. Officers entitled to payment under this Order do not receiveit as a right and it may be terminated at any time without notice by the Chief Secretary who mayrequire the Responsible Officer to re-arrange rosters and working hours and to re-allocate staff to coverthe workload.7.3.5 Responsible Officers should see that whenever possible an Officer's work is regulated so thathe or she is not ordinarily required to work more than 34.5 hours in a week if office based, or morethan 39 hours per week if directly supervising the work of iron-establishwd staff working a 39 hourweek. These hours include lunch breaks.Order 7.4Acting and responsibility allowances7.4.1 An Officer authorised by the Chief Secretary to act in an Office more senior tha.r Iris or herown, providing that the Acting Appointment continues for at least twenty eight days, shall receive anadditional allowance in respect. of the period calculated as follows:the difference between the Officer's substantive salary and the minimum salary of the seniorOffice, unlessthe Officer's substantive salary exceeds the minimum salary of the senior Office, then thefirst incremental point immediately in excess of the Officer's substantive salary.7.4.2 Where an Officer discharges the responsibilities of another more senior post at the same time asthe duties of his or her own substantive post, then at the discretion of the Chief Secretary aresponsibility allowance may be paid, provided that the additional responsibilities are discharged for acontinuous period of more than seven days and represent a substantial increase in responsibility andworkload for the Officer for this time.7.4.3 Notwithstanding the provisions of the rest of this Order, it shall be the normal practice forOfficers to cover the duties and responsibilities of absent colleagues or vacant posh in theirDepartments without additional recompense.7.4.4 The payment of all acting and responsibility allowances is contingent upon sufficient provisionfor them having been made in the personal emoluments provisions in the Annual Estimates.7.4.5 No Officer may be permitted to act or cover the responsibilities of an Office more than twosalary grades above his or her own substantive salary grade.7.4.6 Acting and responsibility allowances, where authorised, are payable from the date the Officerassumes the responsibilities of the senior Appointment up to the date immediately prior to that onwhich he or she hands over the responsibilities of the Office.7.4.7 An Officer appointed to act in a higher Office will be eligible for subsistence and transportallowances at the rates prescribed for the senior Office.Order 7.5Shift allowance7.5.1 Officers who are regularly required to work on a shift basis may be entitled to receive a shiftallowance for each complete month that the shift requirement covers. The entitlement shall apply for a25
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