AN120020 – Animal Welfare, Institutional (State) Award
Where, by mutual agreement between an employer and the employees, a 38-hour week is to be implemented on the basis of a rostered day off in each cycle of 20 working days, the following provisions shall apply:
(i) Rostering
(a) Rostered days off shall be scheduled by mutual agreement between employees and the Company.
(b) Except as provided by paragraph (c) of this subclause, an employee shall be advised by the employer at least four weeks in advance of the weekday the employee is to be rostered off duty.
(c) The employer, with the agreement of the majority of employees concerned, may substitute the day an employee is to be rostered off duty for another day in the case of a breakdown of machinery or to meet the requirements of the business.
(d) An individual employee, with the agreement of the employer, may substitute the day the employee is rostered off duty for another day.
(e) In the event that an employee is rostered off duty on a day which coincides with pay day, such employee shall be paid no later than the working day immediately following pay day.
(f) Rostered days off may accumulate and be taken off in blocks of leave scheduled by agreement between the employer and the employee.
(ii) Payment of Rostered Day Off - For every ordinary hour paid for, payment to the employee of one-twentieth (5 per cent) of the employee's hourly rate (weekly rate divided by 38) will be withheld by the employer and then paid in the pay week in which the employee's rostered day off is taken.
(iii) Rostered Day Off Falling on a Public Holiday - In the event of an employee's rostered day off duty falling on a public holiday, the employee and the company shall agree to an alternative day off as a substitute, provided that, in the absence of agreement, the substituted day shall be determined by the employer.
(iv) Work on Rostered Day Off Duty - Any employees required to work on their rostered days off shall be paid in accordance with the provisions of clause 6, Overtime, Meal Allowance, Crib and Rest Breaks.
(v) Sick Leave and Rostered Days Off - Employees are not eligible for sick leave in respect of absences on rostered days off, as such absences are outside their ordinary hours of duty.
