Common use of Reduction in hours following Parental Leave Clause in Contracts

Reduction in hours following Parental Leave. (a) A Doctor may request a flexible working arrangement for reduced hours on a permanent or temporary basis following a period of parental leave. (b) The number of hours worked by the Doctor must be agreed at the commencement of the period of reduced hours of employment and may be varied subsequently by mutual agreement. (c) A Doctor engaged on reduced hours will be paid an hourly rate equal to 1/38th of the weekly actual salary paid to the individual Doctor and will, for the duration of any arrangement for reduced hours under this clause or clause 14, continue to be entitled to any term of this Agreement that is expressed as only applying to Full- Time Doctors save that any such entitlement will apply on a pro-rata basis according to the number of hours worked by the Doctor. (d) Payments for shift work including on Saturday and Sundays (clause 36), and Public Holidays (clause 56) also apply to Doctors on reduced hours. (e) Where a Doctor on reduced hours has an entitlement to leave under this Agreement, the Doctor will be paid according to the number of hours the Doctor would have worked on the day/s on which the leave was taken. (f) A Doctor may at any time elect to have their employment engagement under this clause or clause 14 changed to a fractional basis on the same hours.

Reduction in hours following Parental Leave. (a) A Doctor may request a flexible working arrangement for reduced hours on a permanent or temporary basis following a period of parental leave. (b) The number of hours worked by the Doctor must be agreed at the commencement of the period of reduced hours of employment and may be varied subsequently by mutual agreement. (c) A Doctor engaged on reduced hours will be paid an hourly rate equal to 1/38th of the weekly actual salary paid to the individual Doctor and will, for the duration of any arrangement for reduced hours under this clause or clause 14, continue to be entitled to any term of this Agreement that is expressed as only applying to Full- Full-Time Doctors save that any such entitlement will apply on a pro-rata basis according to the number of hours worked by the Doctor. (d) Payments for shift work including on Saturday and Sundays (clause 36), and Public Holidays (clause 56) also apply to Doctors on reduced hours. (e) Where a Doctor on reduced hours has an entitlement to leave under this Agreement, the Doctor will be paid according to the number of hours the Doctor would have worked on the day/s on which the leave was taken. (f) A Doctor may at any time elect to have their employment engagement under this clause or clause 14 changed to a fractional basis on the same hours.