Common use of Shared Services Principles Clause in Contracts

Shared Services Principles. The following principles apply where an Employer or Agency party to this Enterprise Agreement proposes to implement a shared services arrangement: 1. Employment security protection for employees transferred from an Agency to a shared service will be in accordance with Clause 15 of this Enterprise Agreement. 2. An employee required to transfer from an Employer or Agency to a shared service agency (or division of an agency) will be entitled to the more favourable of the salary rates of the applicable Enterprise Agreement. 3. Where the employee’s rate of pay exceeds the applicable rate of pay at the expiry of the industrial instrument which contains the more favourable rate of pay, that rate of pay will be pegged until the rate that is generally paid equals or exceeds that pegged rate of pay. 4. The terms and conditions of employment applicable to staff who are required to transfer to a shared service agency (or division of an agency) will be those generally applicable to employees covered under this Agreement. Consultation on this matter will occur with the relevant associations, including the maintenance of, or making other appropriate, superannuation arrangements. 5. The following Human Resource Principles will be applied: • All positions will have an agency endorsed job and person specification. • It is the intention that as many ongoing employees affected by the shared service initiative as possible from the existing structures be placed into the new structure at their substantive classification level to meet the requirements of the shared services structure. • Approval can be sought from the Commissioner for Public Sector Employment to approve the filling of vacancies arising from the shared service initiative outside of the requirements of Commissioner’s Standard 2 Quality Staffing. This may include: i. Where there are more ongoing employees at a substantive level and skill set than required positions, a merit based selection process will be conducted between those employees only; ii. Unplaced ongoing employees will be given priority consideration for new positions in the shared services structure matching their substantive level and skill set in the new structure prior to general recruitment procedures; iii. Where an employee accepts a position classified below their substantive level income maintenance will be as prescribed in Commissioner’s Standard 2 Quality Staffing. • Any formal applications for reclassification lodged prior to the announcement of the shared service initiative must be determined by the relevant Agency prior to any transition process. • Any employee who is declared a redeployee as a result of a shared service initiative will be considered an internal redeployee in both agencies affected by the shared service initiative. Such employees will be provided with retraining and development opportunities by the declaring agency. This retraining will commence within six months of being declared a redeployee. The implementation of any shared service initiative and the restructuring processes arising from that initiative shall not be used as a mechanism for addressing any perceived individual performance issues. This Workplace Flexibility Agreement (WFA) only applies within the Department for Environment and Natural Resources (or successor agency) and will be binding on persons employed pursuant to this enterprise agreement to undertake Bushfire Suppression duties. This Workplace Flexibility Agreement relates to the conditions applicable to both salaried and weekly paid employees when participating in bushfire incident operations as designated by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR). Despite any other provision in the South Australian Public Sector Salaried Employees Interim Award (SAPSSEI Award), South Australian Government Services Award, or the South Australian Government Civil Construction and Maintenance Award, an employee required by the employer to undertake bushfire incident operations will be employed in accordance with the conditions detailed in this Appendix to the South Australian Government Wages Parity (Salaried) Enterprise Agreement 2010 (or successor) and South Australian Government Wages Parity (Weekly Paid) Enterprise Agreement 2010 (or successor) respectively.