Australian National University Enterprise Agreement 2005-2008

Part Three — Employment Conditions | Section 2 — Hours of Work and Workloads

30. Flexible Working Arrangements

30.1 Preamble and general statement

30.1.1 Flexible working arrangements allow staff members and the University to vary hours, and patterns of work, to meet the teaching, research and administrative priorities of the University and staff members' personal commitments, taking into account the operational requirements of the work area.

30.1.2 Flexible working arrangements are arrangements whereby a staff member may be required, or may choose, to work outside of the ordinary hours of work prescribed in clause 26 without attracting the overtime rates or shiftwork penalty rates provided for in clauses 27 and 28 respectively. Subject to the provisions of this clause, flexible working arrangements may be as agreed between an individual staff member and his or her supervisor or may be made via a local area agreement.

30.1.3 The University has three main types of flexible working arrangements. These are:

30.1.3(a) flextime (see sub-clause 30.2);

30.1.3(b) annualised allowances (see sub-clause 30.3); and

30.1.3(c) non-prescribed flexible working arrangements (see sub-clause 30.4)

30.2 Flextime

30.2.1 Flextime means an arrangement whereby a staff member may, with the approval of his or her supervisor, start and/or finish work at flexible times that may be normally within the span of hours.

30.2.2 A Dean or Director may adopt flextime arrangements for those general staff employed within his or her work area.

30.2.2 The Dean or Director will tailor the flextime arrangements, including in relation to:

30.2.2(a) the ANU Officer levels to which the flextime arrangements will apply;

30.2.2(b) whether or not the flextime arrangements will apply to part time staff members;

30.2.2(c) the maximum number of hours that a staff member may go into credit or debit; and

30.2.2(d) mechanisms to ensure that credit and debit flex hours are monitored.

30.3 Annualised allowances

30.3.1 The annualised overtime and shift allowances referred to in sub-clauses 27.4 and 28.4, respectively, are designed to create administrative ease for the University and certainty for the staff member. Such allowance cannot be used to reduce the entitlements that a staff member would otherwise have received through the normal calculation of overtime rates or shift rates when averaged over a year.

30.4 Non-prescribed flexible working arrangements

30.4.1 Non-prescribed flexible working arrangements are flexible working arrangements agreed to between a staff member and the University, or a group of staff members and the University, which do not fall into the "flextime" or "annualised allowance" categories of flexible working arrangements. Such flexible working arrangements may be adopted in circumstances where:

30.4.1(a) the ongoing nature of the work performed requires ordinary hours to be worked outside the span of hours, in which case the ordinary hours of a staff member (or of a category of staff members) will be worked to suit the needs of the University, and the staff member (or category of staff members) concerned will be liable to work these hours; or

30.4.1(b) increased flexibility will be of benefit to a staff member or staff members and such flexibility is able to be accommodated by the work area.

30.4.2 A non-prescribed flexible working arrangement will be made in accordance with clause 61 and must be approved by the Director, Human Resources prior to commencement.

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