AN120098 – Butter, Cheese & Other Dairy Products (State) Award
15.1 The following days will be public holidays for the purposes of this award:
New Years Day, Australia Day, Good Friday, Easter Saturday, Easter Monday, Anzac Day - April 25, Queen’s Birthday, Labour Day, Christmas Day - December 25, Boxing Day, the Picnic Day of the Union and any day proclaimed and observed as a holiday for the State.
15.2 No deduction in the wages of weekly employees will be made for public holidays.
15.3 For each holiday, which occurs on a working day, an employee will be deemed to have worked such number of ordinary hours as he/she would have worked had the day not been a holiday.
15.4 All time worked on public holidays, other than those listed in clause 15.5 will be paid at double time and one half.
15.5 All time worked on Good Friday, Anzac Day - 25 April, and Christmas Day - 25 December, will be paid for at the rate of triple time.
15.6 As an alternative to 15.4 and 15.5, an employer may elect to give employees either two weeks leave of absence per annum at ordinary rates or one week leave per annum at ordinary rates and also one weeks wages, in lieu of payment for all public holidays.
Where an employer elects to use either of the alternatives listed in 15.6, then:
15.6.1 all time worked on Good Friday, Anzac Day - April 25, and Christmas Day - December 25 will be paid at double time and a half and for all other public holidays at time and a half.
15.6.2 the employer must notify the employees and the Union within 14 days of the intention to use the alternative for the whole plant or a section of it. In notifying the employees, the employer must post a notice in a place conveniently accessible to the employees.
15.6.3 Any employee whose services are terminated will be paid as if he or she worked on the public holidays in accordance with clause 15.3 or 15.4 for all holidays standing to his or her credit.
15.6.4 Annual leave, as prescribed by the Annual Holidays Act 1944, will not form part of any leave of absence pursuant to this clause.
Where annual leave is granted in conjunction with leave in accordance with this clause, the first part of such combined leave will be deemed to be annual leave pursuant to the Act.
15.7 An employee (other than a casual employee) who is directed to and does attend for duty on a holiday to work hours which are not included in the employees ordinary rostered hours (had the day not been a holiday) will be paid a minimum payment of four hours at the appropriate rate of pay.
15.8 Where an employer has not elected to work under the provisions of clause 15.6, and an employee is rostered off duty on any of the holidays mentioned in subclause 15.1 of this clause, he/she will be paid one day’s pay or have one day added his/her annual leave for each holiday rostered off duty
15.9 An employee absent without leave or reasonable excuse on the working day before a holiday prescribed herein, or the working day after such holiday, will forfeit wages for the days absent and for the holiday
