{"id":590,"date":"2010-09-21T18:06:52","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T10:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/?p=590"},"modified":"2016-08-04T20:06:17","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T12:06:17","slug":"higher-duties-allowance-local-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/press\/higher-duties-allowance-local-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Higher Duties Allowance (Local Government)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/timesheet-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"timesheet\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-591\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/timesheet-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/timesheet.jpg 425w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><span class=\"drop-cap\">E<\/span>mployees are often called upon to relieve in a higher position than their substantive position in an organization when their superior officers are absent from the workplace for any reason.  This situation always triggers a question in the relieving employee&#8217;s mind &#8220;I wonder if I get paid extra for relieving in my Boss&#8217;s position whilst he is away?&#8221;  Different Awards contain differing provisions in respect to the payment of Higher Duties Allowance in these circumstances.<!--more-->  In response to queries from our clients, we have posted two articles dealing with this question on our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/bulletin\/\">Bulletin Board<\/a>; one dealing with this question from the perspective of the <em>Municipal Employees (WA) Award 1999<\/em> and the other dealing with a similar question from the perspective of the <em>Local Government Officers&#8217; (WA) Award 1999.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When employers require employees to relieve in a higher position than their normal position to cover absences of senior staff, there is a legitimate expectation on the part of the relieving employee that they will receive some form of recompense for this work in the form of a Higher Duties Allowance.<\/p>\n<a class=\"archives-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/press\/higher-duties-allowance-local-government\/\" title=\"Higher Duties Allowance (Local Government)\">Continue reading...<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[45,43,44],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-award-interpretations","category-employee-benefits","tag-allowances","tag-higher-duties","tag-relieving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19185,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions\/19185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}