The University supports employees having access to flexible working arrangements, subject to operational requirements.
15.3.1 Hours of Duty
Except as agreed between the employer and the employee, the parameters for the working of “ordinary hours” shall be the same as the span of hours provided in clause 14.1 of this agreement.
The employer shall inform an employee appointed to work part-time of the prescribed weekly and daily hours. These hours will constitute the ordinary working hours of the employee.
There may be reasons for temporary variations to an employee’s ordinary working hours. As the usual reasons for seeking part-time employment are because of other commitments, any variations must be agreed to by the part-time employee. The employer must provide the employee with at least two working days’ prior notice of any variation to the employee’s ordinary working hours. In cases where the required notice is not provided and the employee’s ordinary working hours are varied the additional hours worked shall be paid at overtime rates.
If agreement is reached to vary an employee’s ordinary working hours pursuant to this subclause:
- time worked to 7.5 hours on any normal working day is not to be regarded as overtime but an extension of the ordinary hours for that day and shall be paid at the normal rate of pay;
- overtime shall not be payable unless the total time worked on any normal working day is 8 hours or more.
Additional days worked, up to a total of five days per week, are also regarded as an extension of the contract and should be paid at the normal rate.
15.3.2 Annual Increments
An employee appointed to work part-time shall be entitled to annual increments in accordance with clause 22 – Incremental Progression of this Agreement, subject to meeting the usual performance criteria.
15.3.3 Leave
An employee appointed to work part-time shall be allowed entitlements in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement in the proportion which the hours worked bear to 37.5.
Payment to an employee proceeding on annual leave and long service leave shall be calculated on a pro-rata basis having regard for any variations to the employee’s ordinary working hours during the accrual period.
Sick leave and any other paid leave shall be paid at the current salary, but only for those hours or days that would normally have been worked had the employee not been on such leave.
15.3.4 Holidays
A part-time employee shall be entitled to the holidays as prescribed in clause 39 – Holidays and Christmas Closedown of this Agreement without deduction of pay in respect of each holiday which falls on a day ordinarily worked by the part-time employee.
