Higher Duties Allowance

29.1   An employee, other than a relieving employee classified above Level 3, who is directed by the Head or duly authorised senior employee to act in an office which is classified higher than the employee’s own office and who performs the full duties and accepts the full responsibilities of the higher office for a period of five consecutive working days or more, shall, subject to the provisions of this clause, be paid an allowance equal to the difference between the employee’s own salary and the salary the employee would receive if the employee were permanently appointed to the office in which the employee is so directed to act.

29.2   Where the full duties of a higher office are temporarily performed by two or more employees they shall each be paid an allowance as determined by the Vice-Chancellor or nominee. Where an employee is directed to perform a portion of the duties and responsibilities of the position in which the employee is required to act then the allowance prescribed by this subclause shall be varied on a pro rata basis to the full allowance which would otherwise be payable.

29.3   Where a relieving employee classified above Level 3 acts in an office or offices classified one class higher than the employee’s own office for a continuous period exceeding four weeks, the employee shall be paid a higher duties allowance as prescribed in subclause 29.1 of this clause for all that part of such period in excess of four weeks.

29.4   Where a relieving employee classified above Level 3 acts in an office classified two or more classes higher than the employee’s own office, the employee shall be paid a higher duties allowance as prescribed in subclause 29.1 of this clause.

29.5   Where an employee who has qualified for payment of a higher duties allowance under this clause is required to act in another office or other offices classified higher than the employee’s own office for periods less than five consecutive working days without any break in acting service, the employee shall be paid a higher duties allowance for such periods. Provided that payment shall be made at the highest rate the employee has been paid during the employee’s term of continuous acting or at the rate applicable to the office in which the employee is currently acting, whichever is the less.

29.6   Where an employee is directed to act in an office which has an incremental range of salaries, the employee shall be entitled to receive an increase in higher duties allowance equivalent to the annual increment the employee would have received had the employee been permanently appointed to such office. Provided that acting service with allowances for acting in offices of the same classification or higher than the office during the eighteen months preceding the commencement of so acting shall aggregate as qualifying service towards such an increase in the allowance.

29.7   Where an employee who is in receipt of an allowance granted under this clause and has been so for a continuous period of twelve months or more, proceeds on:

the employee shall continue to receive the allowance for the period of leave. Provided that this subclause shall also apply to an employee who has been in receipt of an allowance for less than twelve months if during the employee’s absence no other employee acts in the office in which the employee was acting immediately prior to proceeding on leave and the employee resumes in the office immediately after leave. For the purpose of this subclause the expression “normal annual leave” shall mean an annual period of recreation leave of four weeks (five weeks in the case of regular shift workers), and shall include any of the holidays and leave in lieu accrued during the preceding twelve months taken in conjunction with such annual recreation leave.

29.8   Where an employee who is in receipt of an allowance granted under this clause proceeds on:

the employee shall not be entitled to receive payment of such allowance for the whole or any part of the period of such leave.