Buy out of hours
There may be a business or organisational need to buy out a proportion of an employee’s hours. This applies in situations where:
- an employee’s work has diminished
- the work of a group of employees has diminished or ceased
- redundancy would otherwise be necessary
The organisational change policy and procedure (MS Word, 136KB) includes entitlements, notice periods and returning to work. This should be used as a last resort after or alongside the Council’s Redeployment Procedure.
Buy out of hours changes must be entered on to Unit4 by your line manager via the completion of a ‘Position Administration’ form and an ‘Employment Administration’ form. Guidance for completing these forms is available on the Unit4 support site. Enter the password 'Unit4' (this is case sensitive).
Click on the 'HR/Payroll' category and scroll to the 'General' tab.
Once the changes have been made on the system, the Transactional Service Centre (TSC) will forward the relevant documents to you.
If you have a query please contact the TSC via the online form: Recruitment and Pay enquiry and select Cheshire East Council when asked which organisation the query relates to.
When buy out of hours does not apply
- Voluntary reductions in hours
- Situations where an employee has two or more separate jobs with the Council; where as a result of a re-organisation or downsizing one of these jobs is deleted, but as a result of a successful redeployment exercise the employee is no worse off financially then they would have been in their previous job.