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1 SOUTH AUSTRALIAN PUBLIC SECTOR WAGES PARITY enterprise agreement : SALARIED 2014 File No. 08104/2014B This agreement shall come into force on and from 4 December 2014 and have a life extending for a period of twenty-four months therefrom. THE COMMISSION HEREBY APPROVES THIS enterprise agreement PURSUANT TO SECTION 79 OF THE FAIR WORK ACT 1994. DATED 4/12/2014. _____ COMMISSION MEMBER SOUTH AUSTRALIAN PUBLIC SECTOR WAGES PARITY enterprise agreement : SALARIED 2014 Department of the Premier and Cabinet (Office for the Public Sector) Level 5, Grenfell Centre 25 Grenfell Street ADELAIDE SA 5000 GPO Box 2343 ADELAIDE SA 5001 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. enterprise agreement .. 1 2. OBJECTS AND COMMITMENTS .. 1 3. INTERPRETATION.

2 2 4. PARTIES BOUND .. 4 5. OTHER enterprise AGREEMENTS .. 6 6. SALARY AND wage ADJUSTMENTS .. 6 Salary Increases .. 6 Incremental Progression .. 6 7. SALARY PACKAGING ARRANGEMENTS .. 7 8. REDEPLOYMENT, RETRAINING AND REDUNDANCY .. 8 9. WORKLIFE FLEXIBILITY .. 8 Voluntary Flexible Working Arrangements .. 8 Paid Maternity Leave and Paid Adoption Leave .. 8 Return to Work on a Part Time Basis .. 9 Paid Partner Leave .. 10 Family Carer s Leave .. 10 Reimbursement of Reasonable Child Care Costs .. 10 Reimbursement of Reasonable Travel Costs .. 11 Domestic / Relationship Violence .. 11 10. OVERTIME SALARY .. 11 11. ON-CALL/RECALL .. 12 12. NIGHT SHIFT PENALTY .. 13 13. WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY .. 13 14. TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT .. 14 15. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT .. 14 16. WORKPLACE FLEXIBILITY.

3 15 Workplace Flexibility Proposal .. 15 Personal Flexibility agreement .. 16 17. RECLASSIFICATION DATE .. 17 18. TOIL AND FLEXI-TIME ACCRUALS .. 17 19. MINIMUM HOURS OF ENGAGEMENT .. 17 20. PUBLIC 17 Limit on Public Holiday Work .. 17 Public Holidays Employees Rostered Over 6 Days .. 18 Public Holidays Correctional and Correctional Industry Officers .. 18 21. MEAL BREAKS .. 18 22. PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT .. 19 23. MEDICAL SCIENTISTS LEAVE .. 19 24. PAYMENT OF ADDITIONAL DUTIES .. 19 25. NO EXTRA CLAIMS .. 20 26. CONSULTATIVE PROCESSES .. 20 27. GRIEVANCE AND DISPUTE AVOIDANCE PROCEDURES .. 21 Dispute Resolution .. 21 Enforcement .. 22 28. VARIATIONS .. 22 29. REVIEW .. 22 30. RENEGOTIATION .. 23 31. SIGNATORIES .. 24 APPENDIX 1: REDEPLOYMENT, RETRAINING AND REDUNDANCY .. 27 APPENDIX 2: PARITY SALARIES AND WAGES .

4 30 Schedule : Administrative Services Stream .. 30 Schedule : Allied Health Professionals Stream .. 31 Schedule : Endorsed Supervision Training - Psychologists .. 31 Schedule : CFS Operation 32 Schedule : Country Arts Trust .. 33 Schedule : Dental Officers .. 35 Schedule : Grant Funded Scientists .. 36 Schedule : Interpreters and Translators .. 37 Schedule : Legal Officers .. 44 Schedule : Legal Officers Attorney General s .. 45 Schedule : Legal Services Commission .. 46 Schedule : Medical Scientists .. 47 Schedule : Models .. 48 Schedule : Operational Services Stream .. 48 Schedule : Correctional Industry Officer Allowance .. 49 Schedule : Secure Training Centre Allowance .. 50 Schedule : Residential (Secure) Care Allowance .. 50 Schedule : Allowances, Operation of.

5 51 Schedule : Correctional Officers .. 52 Schedule : Professional Officers Stream .. 53 Schedule : Technical Services Stream .. 54 Schedule : Visiting Dental Staff agreement .. 55 Schedule : Visiting Podiatrists .. 55 APPENDIX 3: SAVED CLAUSES .. 56 APPENDIX 4: WORKPLACE FLEXIBILITY 69 APPENDIX 5: SHARED SERVICES PRINCIPLES .. 84 APPENDIX 6: WORK LEVEL DEFINITIONS .. 85 APPENDIX 6A: ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONALS WORK LEVEL DEFINITIONS .. 85 APPENDIX 6B: PROFESSIONAL OFFICER WORK LEVEL DEFINITIONS .. 95 APPENDIX 6C: MEDICAL SCIENTISTS WORK LEVEL DEFINITIONS .. 105 APPENDIX 6D: GRANT FUNDED SCIENTISTS WORK LEVEL DEFINITIONS .. 118 APPENDIX 7: CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS .. 132 1. Correctional Officers Work Level Definitions .. 132 2. Translation Arrangements Correctional Industry Officers.

6 134 3. Public Holidays and Christmas Day on a Saturday Not Required .. 134 4. Correctional Officers Hours of Work .. 135 5. Operational Improvements .. 135 6. Day Shift Establishment .. 136 7. Correctional Officer Level 3 (CO-3) - Advanced Correctional Officer (local title) .. 136 8. Special Conditions For Employees Employed Within The Intensive Compliance Unit .. 136 APPENDIX 8: DENTAL OFFICERS .. 138 1. Work Level Definitions .. 138 APPENDIX 9: MEDICAL PHYSICISTS .. 142 1. Work Level Definitions .. 142 2. Translation Arrangements .. 146 3. Salary Schedule: Medical Physicist .. 149 4. Medical Scientists ( SOUTH AUSTRALIAN Public Sector) Award .. 149 WPEA: Salaried 2014 Page 1 / 151 1. enterprise agreement This enterprise agreement is made pursuant to the Fair Work Act 1994, Chapter 3, Part 2.

7 This enterprise agreement may be referred to as the SOUTH AUSTRALIAN Public Sector WAGES PARITY enterprise agreement : Salaried 2014 . This enterprise agreement will have effect only if approved by the Industrial Relations Commission of SOUTH Australia ( Commission ). The term of this enterprise agreement shall be two years from the date of approval by the Commission. The parties to this enterprise agreement acknowledge that issues of GOVERNMENT policy, service levels, Commissioner for Public Sector Employment (CPSE) Standards, Directions, Circulars, Guidelines, including as may be issued under the Public Sector Act 2009, Chief Executive determinations and resource allocation fall outside the parameters of this enterprise agreement . The employer parties undertake to, wherever possible, keep relevant employees informed of these issues.

8 2. OBJECTS AND COMMITMENTS The objects of this enterprise agreement are to: Enable the SA public sector agencies and employees party to this enterprise agreement to be dynamic productive and responsive to the service needs of GOVERNMENT , the public and customers; Effect WAGES PARITY and increases in accordance with this enterprise agreement for salaried employees bound by this enterprise agreement and employed in positions classified at the same level; Support SOUTH Australia s Strategic Plan and Strategic Priorities, A Modern Public Service Building a Stronger SOUTH Australia , the SOUTH AUSTRALIAN Health Care Plan and the achievement of GOVERNMENT and agency objectives; Advance the objects of, and the public sector principles and practices referred to in, the Public Sector Act 2009; Support workforce flexibility, mobility, development and performance; Continue to apply to particular agencies terms as detailed in Appendix 3.

9 In making and applying this enterprise agreement , the parties are committed to: The continued evolution of the SA public sector as a dynamic, productive and customer responsive entity; Recognising that initiatives will continue to be introduced to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the service and to enable the provision of quality services to GOVERNMENT , the public and customers; Consultation in the development and implementation of public sector and agency based reform and change programs; Implementing Redeployment, Retraining and Redundancy from the date of approval of this enterprise agreement . Obtaining the approval of the Commission to this enterprise agreement ; and Existing conditions of employment applying to a party not being reduced, subject to the terms of this enterprise agreement and any applicable Workplace Flexibility agreement .

10 This commitment does not prevent the operation of other commitments in this clause, but not to the effect that (considered as a whole) would result in a diminution of conditions existing as at the date of approval by the Commission. Applying the public sector principles and practices referred to in the Public Sector Act 2009 in a manner that encourages consistency of interpretation and application of an employment condition or entitlement so as to support the fair employment and management of employees. Having regard both to the similarity and variety of agencies and employees subject to this enterprise agreement , and the discretionary decision- WPEA: Salaried 2014 Page 2 / 151 making amongst agencies and employees, there is no obligation to apply to another agency nor employees in another agency, a process entitlement or practice that has been provided or adopted at the discretion of an agency or adopted by employees in another agency.