15Displacement allowance

15 Displacement allowance

(1)  If an employee is assigned duties at another location, either as a result of promotion or otherwise not at the employee’s request and, as a result of –

(a) the early retirement of the employee on the grounds of health or redundancy; or

(b) the death of the employee –

there has developed a hardship that can only be alleviated if the employee or surviving dependant of the employee moves from the employee’s or surviving dependant’s accommodation to other accommodation, the employee or surviving dependant is, subject to the approval of the relevant Head of Agency, entitled to an allowance (a displacement allowance).

(2)  The displacement allowance is to be a sum determined by the Employer and is to be in the form of reimbursement, to the retired employee or the surviving dependant of that employee, of –

(a) removal expenses associated with moving the furniture and personal belongings of the employee and the employee’s dependants; and

(b) expenses associated with the storage of that furniture and those personal belongings; and

(c) the cost of any interim accommodation that may be required by the employee or the employee’s dependants, or both; and

(d) the cost of the conveyance of the employee and the employee’s dependants.