AT794071 - Queensland Local Government Officers' Award 1998 [Transitional]

10. OFFICERS PERFORMING HIGHER DUTIES

When an officer is engaged wholly or mainly duties other than those of the officer's usual grade or classification, the officer shall be paid the existing salary of the officer so relieved:

10.1.1 Provided that where the officer so relieved holds a position for which the award provides annual increments, the officer engaged in relieving shall be paid the appropriate salary applicable to the first year of service, and whilst continuing to perform such duties shall receive the prescribed annual increments: Provided that this provision shall not apply where relieving duties are performed for not more than one day at a time.

10.1.2 A junior officer engaged wholly or mainly on duties for which adult rates of salary apply shall be paid at the minimum adult rate applicable to those duties. The officer's engagement "wholly or mainly" on such duties shall mean and include the carrying out of more than 50 per cent of the duties usually then performed in the position to which the adult rates apply and acceptance of more than 50 per cent of the responsibility usually then associated with those duties.