POLICY	
	Incremental Progression	
Contact Officer	Manager, Employee Relations	

Purpose	To document the policy/principles for incremental progression.
	
Overview	Incremental progression policy provides information for Managers to determine the eligibility to incremental progression for staff.
	
Scope	This policy applies to all Staff Members.	
The Policy	Eligibility and Entitlement

The eligibility and entitlement to incremental progression are prescribed by the Agreement.

Incremental Progression
On completion of each twelve (12) months service, continuing and fixed-term Staff Members not on the maximum salary point for their classification level will automatically progress to the next salary step within the classification.

Casual general Staff Members will be eligible for incremental progression on completion of 1200 hours.

Withholding Incremental Progression
A Staff Member’s incremental progression may be withheld where:

a) an adverse report under the University’s Performance Development and
Review program is received by Human Resources prior to the Staff
Member’s increment date; or

b) the Staff Member is subject to review in accordance with the
Unsatisfactory Performance or Misconduct and Serious Misconduct
provisions of the Agreement. A decision on the payment of a withheld
increment will be made following the review.

Accelerated Progression

Where a Staff Member has consistently exceeded the required level of
competency for normal incremental progression, the Head may approve
accelerated progression to a higher step within the Staff Member’s current
salary classification.

Where a Staff Member is at the top of the incremental range for their salary
classification and following annual review of performance she/ he is shown to be consistently exceeding the required level of competency then the Head may approve additional payment in accordance with University policy.	
Keywords	Incremental Progression, Accelerated Progression, Eligibility and Entitlement, Withholding Incremental Progression	

Date Approved	27 May 2008	
Approval Authority	Director, Human Resources	
Date of Commencement	tba	
Amendment Dates	List the dates the policy has been amended (Day Month Year)	
Date for Next Review	3 years from date of commencement	
Related Policies, Procedures and Guidelines	Policy/Procedures – Incremental Progression	
Policies Superseded by this Policy	List the policy, policies and / or previous authority superseded by this new policy