AP785611 - Journalists (Television) Award 1998
10.1 An employer may employ a member as a part-time employee.
10.2 The following terms and conditions of employment shall apply to any member employed as a permanent part-time employee:
10.2.1 Work must be performed in blocks of not less than four hours on any day.
10.2.2 Subject to paragraph 10.3.1 hereof, the ordinary hours of work and days on which such work is to be performed shall be agreed in writing between the part-time employee and the employer before the part-time employee commences work. Such agreed hours and days may be changed only by:
10.2.2(1) Agreement (to be recorded in writing) between the part-time employee and the employer; or
10.2.2(2) By seven days notice being given by the employer to the part-time employee, provided that there is no diminution of the total agreed number of ordinary weekly hours of work, and that the changed arrangements are recorded in writing.
10.3 Every part-time employee shall be allocated a grade provided for in the classification tables specified in clause 9 Classification of members, and for the purposes of the application of that table to part-time employees:
10.3.1 The ordinary weekly hours of work of each part-time employee shall be expressed as a percentage of 38;
10.3.2 The percentage so calculated for each part-time employee in the same grade shall be totalled and each part of such total which is 50 per cent but not greater than 100 per cent shall be treated as one employee for the purpose of the relevant classification table;
10.3.3 An employer shall be permitted a period of eight weeks to ensure compliance with the classification table following the employment/cessation of employment of any part-time employee.
10.4 The minimum weekly rate of pay for a part-time employee shall be the rate which is that proportion of the minimum rate of pay for a member of the same grade as the part-time employee which the ordinary weekly hours of work of the part-time employee bears to 38.
10.5 Application to award provisions not referred to above for part-time employees:
10.5.1 For the purposes of this clause, pro rata means, in the case of each part-time employee, the percentage which the ordinary weekly hours of work of the member is of 38.
10.5.2 Annual leave entitlements shall accrue for part-time employees in the same manner as for full-time members. Payment for any period of, or entitlement to, annual leave for part-time employees, shall be calculated pro rata for the period of leave or entitlement.
10.5.3 Sick leave shall accrue for part-time employees in the same manner as for full-time members and payment for absence shall be in respect of the hours each week that would have been worked by the employee concerned had that employee been working.
10.5.4 All other provisions of the award applicable to full-time employees, which are capable of having application to part-time employees shall apply to part-time employees provided that, where such provisions specify a payment to be made to an employee, which is calculated on the basis of, or by reference to, weekly hours of work of a full-time member, the payment shall be pro rata to the permanent part-time employee.
10.6 The provision of part-time employment does not prejudice the rights of the parties in respect of the employment of casual employees and is not to be applied so as to prejudice the employment of full-time employees.
