Telstra Corporation General Conditions Award 2001
AP806392 - Telstra Corporation General Conditions Award 2001
21.1 Where an employee temporarily performs the work of a position having a higher classification than their own then the following will apply.
21.2 An employee who performs all the work of a higher classification will be paid in respect of the performance of that work an allowance equal to the amount of the difference between his/her own salary and the minimum salary of the higher classification.
21.3 An employee who performs some but not all the work of a higher classification will be paid in respect of the performance of that work an allowance fixed by Telstra.
21.4 However, an employee who performs all the work of the higher classification the minimum salary of which exceeds the salary shown in Schedule B, for a period of less than a week, is not entitled to higher duties allowance.
21.5 An employee who performs all the work of a higher classification for a period of less than one day will not be entitled to payment for that period and that period will not be service in the higher position for the purpose of this clause.
21.6 Where an employee temporarily performs the work of a higher classification for a continuous period of twelve months the allowance will thereafter be calculated at the salary level applicable to the classification.
21.7 Where an employee’s total period of higher duties performance in 24 months exceeds twelve months the allowance will be calculated at the next salary level applicable to the higher classification after twelve months service.
21.8 Where an employee temporarily performs the work of a higher classification and the conditions of service of that classification differ from those of the classification normally occupied by the employee, the employee will be entitled to any more favourable conditions applicable to the higher classification.
21.9 An allowance paid under this clause will be regarded as salary for the purposes of calculating travelling and meal allowances and payment for overtime and excess travelling time.
21.10 If an employee goes on leave (other than long service leave), and but for the taking of that leave, the employee would have performed the work of the higher classification, then higher classification allowance will be paid for the period of leave.
21.11 Where an employee has performed higher classification work in an isolated district for at least twelve months in the preceding two years and is in receipt of higher duties allowance in that district at the date of commencing annual leave and is not returning to the isolated district at the conclusion of that leave, the allowance will be paid during that leave.
21.12 Where higher duties allowance payments are included in leave with pay in accordance with 21.10 and 21.11, the leave periods in respect of which the payments are included will be service in the relevant higher classification for the purpose of calculating the amount of higher duties allowance in accordance with 21.6 and 21.7.
