AN120149 – Commercial Travellers, &C., (State) Award

PART IV – GENERAL 

21. ANNUAL LEAVE

(i) For annual leave for local employees and local probationary employees see Annual Holidays Act
1944.

(ii) (a) A country employee and a probationary country employee to whom Part II - Country Employees, of this award applies shall be allowed a period of five weeks' annual leave after twelve months' service, less the period of such leave, with an employer or employers and otherwise shall be subject to the provisions contained in this sub-clause.

(b) Such leave may be taken in one, two or three periods as may be mutually arranged between the employer and employee.

(c) Where an award holiday falls within the period of such annual leave employees shall receive an additional day's leave for each such holiday.

(d) Each employee before going on leave shall be paid his/her ordinary pay; provided that such payment shall not, in any case, be at a rate lower than that prescribed in clause 14, Remuneration - Country Traveller, of Part II - Country Employees, of this award. In this paragraph ordinary pay shall have the same meaning as it has in the Annual Holidays Act 1944.

(e) The period of leave shall, in every case, be deemed to commence at the time the employee returns to his/her usual district or residence.

(f) Where employment is terminated in accordance with the provisions of clause 41, Termination of Employment, of this Part, before the full qualifying period has been served an employee shall be paid a pro rata payment at the rate of two and one half days' wages, calculated in accordance with paragraph (d) of this sub-clause, for each completed month of service, provided that in no case shall payment for pro rata annual leave, pursuant to this sub-clause, exceed five weeks' pay.

(iii) Where an employee is employed as a local and also a country employee he/she shall receive holiday entitlement on a pro rata basis.