AT805114CRV - Federal Meat Industry (Retail and Wholesale) Award 2000 [Transitional]

8. FACILITATIVE PROVISIONS

8.1 Agreement to vary award provisions

8.1.1 This award contains facilitative provisions which allow agreement between an employer and employees on how specific award provisions are to apply at the workplace or a section or sections of it. The facilitative provisions are identified in 8.2.

8.1.2 The specific award provisions establish both the standard award conditions and the framework within which agreement can be reached as to how the particular provisions should be applied in practise. Facilitative provisions are not to be used as a device to avoid award obligations nor should they result in unfairness to an employee or employees covered by this award.

8.2 Facilitation by individual agreement

The following facilitative provisions can be utilised upon agreement between employer and an employee provided that the agreement complies with 8.2.1.

Transfer from one employment category to another	9.1
Variation to hours part-time employment	9.2.2
Payment by result Payment of wages Ordinary hours of work Make-up time	17.3 18.1 22.1.2 22.5
Working in excess of five hours without a break	24.1.1
Time off in lieu of payments for overtime	25.3.1

Transfer of an employee from day work to shift work Starting and finishing times of shift Rotation between shifts Annual leave	26.3 26.8 26.9 27
Substitution of public holidays	32.2.4

8.2.1 The agreement must be recorded in the time and wage record by the employer in accordance with Division 1 of Part 9A of the Workplace Regulations.

8.2.1(a) If an employee is a member of a union bound by the award, the employee may be represented by the union in meeting and conferring with the employer about the implementation of the facilitative provisions.