AN120152 – Community Pharmacy (State) Award 2001

PART 7 - LEAVE OF ABSENCE AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS 

27. ANNUAL HOLIDAY LOADING

27.1 In this clause the Annual Holidays Act 1944, is referred to as "the Act".

27.2 This clause does not apply to casual employees.

27.3 Before an employee is given and takes his or her annual holiday, or, where by agreement between the employer and employee the annual holiday is given and taken in more than one separate period, then before each of such separate periods, the employer shall pay his or her employee a loading determined in accordance with this clause.

NOTATION: The obligation to pay in advance does not apply where an employee takes an annual holiday wholly or partly in advance, see subclause 27.7.

27.4 The loading is payable in addition to the pay for the period of holiday given and taken and due to the employee under the Act and this award.

27.5 The loading is to be calculated in relation to any period of annual holiday to which the employee becomes or had become entitled under the Act and this award (but excluding days added to compensate for public or special holidays worked or public or special holidays falling on an employee's rostered day off not worked) or where such a holiday is given and taken in separate periods, then in relation to each such separate period.

27.6 The loading is the amount payable for the period or the separate period, as the case may be, stated in subclause 27.5 at the rate per week of 17½ per cent of the appropriate ordinary weekly time rate of pay prescribed by this award for the classification in which the employee was employed immediately before commencing his or her annual holiday, but shall not include other allowances, penalty rates, overtime rate or any payments prescribed by this award.

27.7 No loading is payable to an employee who takes an annual holiday wholly or partly in advance; provided that, if the employment of such an employee continues until the day when he or she would have become entitled under the Act to an annual holiday, the loading then becomes payable in respect of the period of such holiday and is to be calculated in accordance with subclause 27.6 applying the Award rates of wages payable on that day.

27.8 Where, in accordance with the Act, the employer's establishment or part of it is temporarily closed down for the purpose of giving an annual holiday or leave without pay to the employees concerned;

27.8.1 an employee who is entitled under the Act to an annual holiday and who is given and takes such a holiday shall be paid the loading calculated in accordance with subclause 27.6;

27.8.2 an employee who is not entitled under the Act to an annual holiday and who is given and takes leave without pay shall be paid in addition to the amount payable to the employee under the Act such proportion of the loading that would have been payable to the employee under this clause if the employee had become entitled to an annual holiday prior to the close-down as the qualifying period of employment in completed weeks bears to fifty-two.

27.9

27.9.1 Where the employment of an employee is terminated by the employer, for a cause other than misconduct and at the time of the termination the employee has not been given and has not taken the whole of an annual holiday to which the employee became entitled, the

employee shall be paid a loading calculated in accordance with subclause 27.5 for the period not taken.

27.9.2 When the employment of an employee is terminated by the employer, the employee shall be paid such loading in respect of complete periods of twelve months during which holidays are not taken.

27.9.3 Except as provided in subclauses 27.9.1 and 27.9.2, no loading is payable on the termination of an employee's employment.