2019-02-12 Attachment 1 to Item 5 - New Delegations

                                                                  Services and Organisation Committee
                                                                  12 February 2019
                                                                  Att 1 to Item 5




 DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY
 TITLE:        INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
 Delegation by the Council to:                                   Date:
 Chief Executive Officer

 Source of Authority:
 Local Government Act 2009 Section 257
 Industrial Relations Act 2016
 Industrial Relations Regulation 2018

Delegated Power:

1.     To exercise powers of the Council pursuant to the Industrial Relations Act 2016.

 DESCRIPTION OF POWER DELEGATED                                                      LEGISLATION
 Power, as the employer, to ask or require an employee to work additional hours      Section 23(2)
 if the hours are reasonable under section 26.
 Power, as the employer, to agree with an employee who is not covered by an          Section 25(1)
 applicable industrial instrument, to an averaging arrangement.
 Power, as the employer, to decide an employee’s request for flexible working        Sections 28(1)
 arrangements with or without conditions                                             and (2)
 Power, as the employer, to give written notice of the decision on an employee’s     Section 28(3)
 request for flexible working arrangements.
 Power, as the employer, to agree when an employee is to take annual leave.          Section 33(1)
 Power, as the employer, and where the employer and employee cannot agree            Section 33(3)
 when the employee is to take annual leave, to decide when the employee is to
 take the leave and give the applicable notice to the employee.
 Power, as the employer, to agree that an employee may take annual leave             Section 33(4)
 before becoming entitled to it.
 Power, as the employer, to agree to pay the employee for annual leave               Section 35(1)
 otherwise than in advance.
 Power, as the employer, to agree that an employee may cash out a particular         Section 37(2)
 amount of annual leave.
 Power, as the employer, to pay an employee for annual leave not taken on            Section 38(3)
 termination of employment.
 Power, as the employer, to agree to an employee taking additional unpaid            Section 42(4)
 carer’s leave.
 Power, as the employer, to agree to an employee who is a short term casual          Section 43(3)
 taking additional unpaid carer’s leave.
 Power, as the employer, to agree to an employee who is a long term casual           Section 44(3)
 taking additional unpaid carer’s leave
 Power, as the employer, to require an employee to give a doctor’s certificate or    Section 45(1)
 statutory declaration as evidence of the need to take carer’s leave for more than
 2 consecutive days.
 Power, as the employer, to require an employee to give a statutory declaration      Section 45(2)
 or evidence mentioned in section 45(3)(a) to (d) as evidence of the need to take
 carer’s leave to care for or support a person who has experienced domestic
 violence

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