Common use of Salary Maintenance Clause in Contracts

Salary Maintenance. 9.1 The salary of an employee who is identified as surplus to requirements and who does not elect to accept voluntary retrenchment shall be maintained at the level prescribed for the nominal classification of that employee for at least two years from the date of formal notice that the employee is surplus to requirements. An individual review will take place of any excess staff who have been receiving salary maintenance for two years. No redeployee however, will have his/her salary maintenance ceased unless he/she has refused a reasonable opportunity for placement at their nominal level. 9.2 For the purposes of 9.1, salary maintenance will include normal incremental advancement through the former salary range and future wage adjustments awarded to the classification of the position the employee was occupying immediately before the position was declared surplus to requirements. 9.3 Maintenance of higher duties for surplus employees will be paid in accordance with the following: (i) where, at date of redeployment, the redeployee is employed on short term higher duties (i.e. up to 6 months) the higher duties payment is to continue as income maintenance for the previously authorised higher duties period; or (ii) where, at the date of redeployment, the redeployee is employed on long term higher duties the higher duties payment is to continue as income maintenance for 6 months. Except that where an employee has accrued a minimum of 12 months higher duties service in the previous 14 months, higher duties payment is to continue as income maintenance for 12 months.