AN120020 – Animal Welfare, Institutional (State) Award
(i) "Weekly Employee" means an employee engaged and paid by the week.
(ii) "Part-time Employee" means an employee engaged by the week but who is required to work a constant number of ordinary hours each week less than the ordinary number of hours prescribed for weekly employees.
(iii) "Casual Employee" means an employee engaged and paid as such, but shall not include an employee working 38 ordinary hours or more per week, and shall not include an employee who is required to work a constant number of ordinary hours each week.
(iv) "Union" means The Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers' Union of Australia, New South Wales Branch.
(v) "Veterinary Assistant" means an employee who has completed six months' service under the supervision of a qualified veterinary surgeon and is considered by the employer to be competent to assist a veterinary surgeon in animal welfare and to be capable of handling clinical records.
(vi) "Animal Attendant" means an employee with three years' experience in the industry and who is employed in connection with animal welfare, or with less service if, in the opinion of the employer, the employee is sufficiently experienced to be so classified and who may be able to give injections and to take temperatures of animals.
(vii) "Lethalist" means an employee who is responsible for the lethalisation of animals and whose duties may include, when not so engaged, the duties of an animal attendant as defined in subclause (vi) of this clause.
(viii) "Seven-day Shift Worker" means an employee who is regularly rostered to work his/her ordinary hours of work on a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday.
(ix) The "Society" or the "R.S.P.C.A." means the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, New South Wales.
(x) The "League" or the "A.W.L." means the New South Wales Animal Welfare League.
