Flexibility 6.1 An Employer and an Employee covered by this Agreement may agree to make an individual flexibility arrangement to vary the effect of terms of the Agreement if: (a) the Agreement deals with one or more of the following matters: (i) overtime rates; (ii) penalty rates; (iii) arrangements about when work is performed; (iv) allowances; and (v) leave loading. (b) the arrangement meets the genuine needs of the Employer and Employee in relation to one or more of the matters mentioned in paragraph (a); and (c) the arrangement is genuinely agreed to by the Employer and Employee. 6.2 The Employer must ensure that the terms of the individual flexibility arrangement: (a) are about permitted matters under section 172 of the Act; and (b) are not unlawful terms under section 194 of the Act; and (c) result in the Employee being better off overall than the Employee would be if no arrangement was made. 6.3 The Employer must ensure that the individual flexibility arrangement: (a) is in writing; and (b) includes the name of the Employer and Employee; and (c) is signed by the Employer and Employee and if the Employee is under 18 years of age, signed by a parent or guardian of the Employee; and (d) includes details of: (i) the terms of the Agreement that will be varied by the arrangement; and (ii) how the arrangement will vary the effect of the terms; and (iii) how the Employee will be better off overall in relation to the terms and conditions of his or her employment as a result of the arrangement; and (e) states the day on which the arrangement commences. 6.4 The Employer must give the Employee a copy of the individual flexibility arrangement within 14 days after it is agreed to. 6.5 The Employer or the Employee may terminate the individual flexibility arrangement: (a) by giving no more than 28 days written notice to the other party to the arrangement; or (b) if the Employer and Employee agree in writing — at any time.
WORKPLACE FLEXIBILITY The employer must ensure that any Individual Flexibility Agreement (IFA) is genuinely agreed to by the employer and the employee and result in the employee being better off overall at the time the IFA is made than the employee would have been if no IFA had been agreed to. 8.1 Notwithstanding any other provision of the Agreement, the employer and an individual employee may agree to vary the application of certain terms of the Agreement to meet the genuine individual needs of the employer and the individual employee. The terms the employer and the individual employee may agree to vary are the application of those permitted under Section 172 of the FW Act, and relates only to:- 8.1.1 arrangements for when work is performed; 8.1.2 salary sacrifice arrangements; 8.1.3 reduction in ordinary hours; and 8.1.4 are not unlawful terms under Section 194 of the FW Act. 8.2 The employer and the individual employee must have genuinely made the IFA without coercion or duress. An IFA can only be entered into after the individual employee has commenced employment with the employer. 8.3 The IFA between the employer and the individual employee must: 8.3.1 be confined to a variation in the application of one or more of the terms listed in Clause 8.1; and 8.4 The IFA between the employer and the individual employee must also: 8.4.1 be in writing, name the parties to the IFA and be signed by the employer and the individual employee and, if the employee is under eighteen (18) years of age, the employee’s parent or guardian; 8.4.2 state each term of the Agreement that the employer and the individual employee have agreed to vary; 8.4.3 detail how the application of each term has been varied by agreement between the employer and the individual employee;
VACATIONS Section 29.1 Accrual All officers and firefighters shall earn vacation time as follows, which may be taken as shifts or on an hourly basis. Employees shall begin accruing vacation time as of their first assigned twenty-four (24) hour shift after they have been hired as a full-time employee of the District. Employees may not schedule vacation time off until the first day following the one (1) year anniversary of their hire date. For the purpose of this Article, a year is defined as the 365-day period from an employee’s hire date and each subsequent 365-day period beginning with the day following the employee’s date of hire. Start of Year 2 of Employment 120 Hours Per Year Start of Year 3 and 4 of Employment 144 Hours Per Year Start of Year 5 through Year 9 of Employment 168 Hours Per Year Start of Year 10 through Year 14 of Employment 216 Hours Per Year Start of Year 15 through Year 19 of Employment 264 Hours Per Year Start of Year 20 of Employment and further 312 Hours Per Year Year 2 through 5 of Employment 80 Hours Per Year Year 6 through Year 9 of Employment 120 Hours Per Year Year 10 through Year 14 of Employment 160 Hours Per Year Year 15 through Year 19 of Employment 200 Hours Per Year Year 20 and all subsequent years of Employment 240 Hours Per Year Employees may carry over vacation time to be used to the following year. No more than five (5) workdays may be carried over to the following year. Unused vacation time not used and not available to be carried over to the following year will be paid on the first pay period after the employee’s anniversary date of hire. Upon separation of service all accrued but unused vacation time and compensatory time will be paid on the employee’s final paycheck. The payouts shall be paid out in accordance to Article 21 of this agreement.