EXTRACT FROM SCHEME OF CONDITIONS FOR APT & C STAFF RELATING TO ENHANCEMENTS

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(c) Weekend working

For work required on a Saturday or Sunday as part of the normal working week, the allowance shall be at the rate of time-and-a-half for all hours worked.

The weekend work allowance shall be paid, where appropriate, in addition to the allowance for night work worked as part of the normal week, or in addition to the allowance for shift working.

Work on a Saturday or Sunday outside the normal working week shall be regarded as overtime and paid for in accordance with Clause 41.

The weekend work allowance shall be paid, where appropriate, to officers employed on a part-time basis who are required to work on Saturdays and Sundays.

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(d) Night working

For work required at night as part of the normal working week, the allowance shall be at the rate of time-and-a-third for all hours wholly worked between 20.00 and 08.00 hours.

The allowance for night work is not payable to officers in receipt of allowances for irregular hours working or shift working.

The night work allowance shall be paid, where appropriate, in addition to the allowance for work on Saturday or Sunday as part of the normal working week.

Work at night outside the normal working week shall be regarded as overtime and paid for in accordance with Clause 41.

The night work allowance shall be paid to part-time officers for all hours wholly worked between 20.00 and 08.00 hours as part of a normal working week.

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(e) Shift working

Where a shift rota is the normal working week, the allowance for all hours worked shall be at the rates set out in the following table:-

(i) Rotating shifts (3 shifts on a rota basis including a night shift)
Where the total period covered by the 3 shifts over 5 or 6 days a week is 18 hours or more and there are at least 4 hours worked between 20.00 and 06.00 17% of salary

Where the total period covered by the 3 shifts over 7 days a week is 18 hours or more and there are at least 4 hours worked between 20.00 and 06.00 20% of salary

(ii) Alternating shifts (2 shifts on a rota basis not including a night shift over 4, 5 or 6 days a week)

Where the total period covered by the 2 shifts is between 11 and 14 hours and there are at least 4 hours between the starting times of the earlier and later shifts. 12½% of salary

Where the total period covered by the 2 shifts is more than 14 hours and there are at least 4 hours between the starting times of the earlier and later shifts. 14% of salary

Alternating shift allowances shall be paid where the number of "normal office hour" shifts does not exceed one half (1 in 2) of the total number of shifts in the rota. Allowances for irregular hours working shall not be paid to officers in receipt of shift allowances.

The shift allowance shall be paid, where appropriate, in addition to the allowance for work on Saturday or Sunday as part of the normal working week.

Time worked beyond the normal shift shall be regarded as overtime and paid for in accordance with Clause 41.

Shift allowances are not appropriate to officers employed on a part-time basis.

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(f) Irregular hours working

For work required outside the period 1½ hours before and/or 1½ hours after the authority's normal working hours in the period Monday to Friday as part of the normal working week the allowance shall be as follows -

(i) For an average of 4 hours but 7½% of salary
less than 8 hours a week calculated
over the working cycle.

(ii) For an average of 8 hours a week or 10% of salary
more calculated over the working
cycle

The allowance for irregular hours working is not payable to officers in receipt of night work or shift work allowances.

This allowance shall not apply to officers employed on a part-time basis.

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(g) General and public holiday working

For work required on a general or public holiday, in addition to normal pay for that day or night (between 2000 hours and 0800 hours on the following day) the allowance shall be at plain time rate for all time worked within an officer's normal working hours. At a later date time off with pay shall be allowed as follows -

When the time worked is less than 4 hours - half day off
When the time worked is 4 hours or more - full day off.

For overtime on a general or public holiday see Clause 41(b) (iv). Allowances and time off with pay for work required on a general or public holiday shall apply, where appropriate, to part-time officers.

Part-time officers who are required to work hours which are additional to their normal working week and which fall on a general or public holiday shall receive payment at plain time rate for the hours worked with time off in lieu as above at a later date or at the discretion of the authority, payment at the rate of double time in complete recompense. (See also Clause 41(b)(ix)).

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(h) Rest day and free day

Where a 5 day week is worked on other than a Monday to Friday basis, and Sunday is a non-working day, Sunday shall be designated as a rest day and the other non-working day as a free day. Where Sunday is a working day and Saturday is a non-working day Saturday shall be designated as the rest day. Where Saturday and Sunday are working days, the first non-working day shall be designated as the rest day and the other as the free day.

Payment for all hours worked on a free day shall be at the rate of time-and-a-half and all hours on a rest day at the rate of double time (subject to the provisions of Clause 41(b)(iii)).

Rest day and free day payments are not appropriate to officers employed on a part-time basis.

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(i) Split duty

There is no national provision for allowances to officers required to undertake work on a split duty basis. Split duty allowances are a matter for local determination.

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41. Overtime

(a) Work in excess of the normal hours of duty a week should be discouraged and in particular officers should not be required consistently to work overtime.

(b) Where, nevertheless, overtime is found to be unavoidable and previous approval thereto has been given by an officer to whom this power has been delegated, payment shall be calculated on the following basis -

(i) To ascertain the hourly overtime rate of pay normal annual salary should be divided by 1924 (52 weeks of 37 hours.)

(ii) Extra time of less than half an hour on any day shall not rank for overtime. Overtime shall be aggregated for each calendar month (or other appropriate period where the hours are arranged over a period longer than a week), and only complete half hours paid for.

(iii) Officers for whom it is a condition in their contract of employment that they shall work hours longer than the standard 37 a week shall be entitled to overtime payments unless the additional hours are recognised by some other payments or arrangements determined locally.

(iv) For overtime on any day other than a Sunday, a rest day or a general or public holiday, payment shall be at the rate of time-and-a-half. For all overtime on a Sunday or a rest day payment shall be at the rate of double time (See Clause 40(h)).

(v) Work on a general or public holiday outwith normal working hours shall rank as overtime and will be paid at the rate of double time in complete recompense.

(vi) Compensatory leave on an equivalent basis to payment may be agreed as an alternative to payment with a minimum compensation of half a day's leave for overtime worked on a Sunday or a rest day.

(vii) Where an authority operates a normal working week of less than 37 hours neither overtime nor compensatory leave of absence need be granted until the total hours worked by an officer in any week exceed 37.

(viii) Subject to the provision of (ix) below, an officer in receipt of a basic salary exceeding the maximum of A. & P. Grade IV shall not be eligible for either payment of overtime or compensatory leave in respect thereof. In exceptional cases where planned overtime by specified officers would facilitate the work of the authority, it may -

(a) authorise such overtime under proper control and for a specified period; and

(b) authorise payment of an honorarium therefore (of an amount to be determined by the authority and related to the various factors involved) to officers who do not qualify for overtime payment or compensatory leave. This provision shall not apply to chief officials or their deputes.

(ix) Where an officer in receipt of a basic salary not exceeding the maximum of A. & P. Grade IV is required to be in evening attendance in connection with meetings of the authority which results in total working hours being in excess of 37 a week, compensatory leave of absence shall be granted at the convenience of the employing department or overtime paid in accordance with this Clause.

An authority shall have discretion to apply this provision to officers (excluding chief officials and their deputes) in receipt of a basic salary in excess of the maximum of A. & P. Grade IV.

(x) Overtime payments shall not apply to officers employed on a part-time basis, unless in unusual circumstances more than 37 hours are worked in a week.

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64. Standby duty allowances

(1) Social Workers

It is recognised that authorities may introduce different methods of organising social work emergency duty cover, which include not only standby duty but also permanent night/weekend teams and mixtures or variants of these. Where standby duty arrangements are used the following provisions apply:-

(a) An individual social worker whose post is not graded above A & P Grade V who does not live at the place of work, and who is required to remain at home on standby duty after normal working hours and at weekends to deal with emergencies as they arise, shall be paid on the following sessional basis to cover the duties and responsibilities involved.

(i) where the occupied time during a standby session spent on telephone calls, and/or call-out, and for documentation is 10% or less - £18.76 per session;

(ii) where the occupied time during a standby session is longer than 10% of a session, such additional time to be paid at the appropriate overtime rate in accordance with Part IV of the Scheme, except that occupied time in excess of 10% should not be aggregated for each calendar week or month - each session should stand on its own. (The restriction on payment of overtime to officers in receipt of a salary in excess of the maximum of A & P Grade IV does not apply for the purposes of this paragraph.)

Notes:

(i) These allowances are intended to cover the full range of duties associated with standing by, including dealing with telephone calls, being called out and documentation.

(ii) Although it is recognised that standby duty is a feature of the job of a social worker, employing authorities are to ensure that such officers are in practice subject to reasonable working hours.

(iii) Local authorities are asked to restrict duty rosters to the number of social workers essentially required to ensure adequate performance of the work involved.

(iv) A session of duty on weekdays shall be from office closing on one day to opening the following morning. At weekends and on public holidays, a session shall consist of 12 hours using notional starting times, eg 9am to 9pm on Saturday would be one session.

(v) Standby duty should normally follow a rota system but the authority may adopt other arrangements where necessary.

(b) In determining the normal pay of an officer during annual leave or sick leave, an authority should include payments made to an officer under (a)(i).

(c) An officer whose existing contract of service provides for a higher recognition of standby duties than prescribed in (a)(i) above shall retain existing recognition on a personal basis.

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(2) Other officers

In the case of other officers whose posts are not graded above A & P Grade V and who are required to undertake standby duty by specific rota commitment in order to be immediately available, if needed, and this fact is not reflected in the grading of the post, the authority shall have discretion to pay an allowance according to the circumstances of the duty.

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(3) Standby Duty on a General or Public Holiday

Officers who are required to undertake standby duty in accordance with the foregoing provisions on a general or public holiday shall be granted, in addition to the appropriate allowance, compensatory leave.

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PART 4 - JOINT ADVICE

Joint advice will follow on:-

1. Job Evaluation Scheme

2. Equal Opportunities Guide

3. Health and Safety

4. Bonus

5. Absence Management Guidelines

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