Crown Employees (Prison Officers, Department of Corrective Services) Award

 

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMISSION OF NEW SOUTH WALES

 

Application by Department of Corrective Services.

 

(No. IRC 132 of 2006)

 

 

VARIATION

 

1.          Delete clause 16, Higher Duties, of the award published 18 February 2005 (348 I.G. 587), and insert in lieu thereof the following:

 

16.  Higher Duties

 

(i)         Subject to this clause, an officer who is required to perform duties in a higher position covered by this Award shall, provided the officer performs the whole of the duties and assumes the whole of the responsibilities of the higher position, be paid an allowance at the difference between the officer's present salary and the salary prescribed for the higher position covered by this Award.

 

(ii)        Officers employed in the classification of Probationary Prison Officer of Prison Officer shall not be entitled to be paid the allowance prescribed in subclause (i) above when performing duties of Prison Officer or Prison Officer 1^st Class.

 

(iii)       An officer who is required to perform duties in a higher position covered by the Crown Employees (Senior Assistant Superintendents and Assistant Superintendents, Department of Corrective Services) Award (or any award succeeding or replacing that award) shall be paid an allowance equal to the difference between the officer's present salary and 95% of the '5 day' salary prescribed for the higher position.  Any weekend or overtime penalty rates payable under this award will be applicable to this higher duties allowance.

 

(iv)       The higher duties allowance payable under subclause (iii) above shall be included in salary for the purposes of calculation overtime only if the duties carried out during the period of overtime are those of the higher position and provided the salary and allowance does not exceed the maximum rate for Clerk Grade 8, as varied from time to time, when the rate payable for directed overtime shall be at the maximum rate for Clerk, Grade 8 plus $1.00.

 

(v)        The higher duties allowance payable under subclauses (i) and (iii) above shall be paid for each day the officer acts in the higher position.

 

(vi)       The higher duties allowance payable under subclause (iii) above shall take effect from the beginning of the first pay period to commence on or after 13 January 2006.

 

(vii)      The provisions of clause 5. (i) (a) Allowances of this award shall not apply to the payment of higher duties.

 

2.          This variation shall take effect from the beginning of the first pay period to commence on or after 13 January 2006.

 

 

 

P. J. CONNOR, Commissioner

 

 

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