AN120154 – Concrete Pipe and Concrete Products Factories Consolidated (State) Award
(a) Weekly Employment - Full-time- Other than casuals, all employees shall be engaged by the week, except during the first week of employment, which shall be on a daily basis.
(b) To obtain the benefit of weekly employment an employee must be ready, available and willing to work on the days and during the hours prescribed for an ordinary day's work, less only prescribed or agreed upon remissions. Pro rata reductions of pay may be made for unauthorised absences.
(c) Weekly Employment - Part -time -
(i) This subclause is subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Australian Workers' Union, New South Wales, such approval will not be unreasonably withheld.
(ii) An employee may be engaged by the week to work on a part-time basis which, having regard to the various ways of arranging ordinary hours, shall average less than 32 hours per week.
(iii) The spread of ordinary working hours shall be the same as those prescribed for weekly employees.
(iv) A part-time employee shall be given a statement, in writing, showing the starting and finishing times and the days upon which the employee is engaged to work as well as the number of hours to be worked in each week.
(v) Such employee for working ordinary time shall be paid per hour one thirty-eighth of the full-time weekly rate prescribed by the award for work which the employee performs and, in addition, shall be entitled on a pro rata basis to shift premiums and other allowances where applicable.
(vi) An employee engaged on a part-time basis shall be entitled to payments in respect of annual leave, long service leave, public holidays, sick leave and bereavement leave arising under this award on a proportionate basis calculated on the normal ordinary hours the employee would have worked in accordance with clause 2, Hours of Labour.
(vii) A part-time employee who works outside the hours fixed pursuant to paragraph (ii) of this subclause shall be paid overtime in accordance with clause 10, Overtime.
(d) Casual Employment - Any person employed other than on terms of weekly employment. Payment shall be in accordance with subclause (c) of clause 4, Rates of Pay, in this award.
(e) Summary Dismissal - Notwithstanding other provisions of this clause, the employer shall have the right to dismiss any employee without notice for conduct that justifies instant dismissal, including malingering, inefficiency or neglect or refusal of duty or other misconduct or failure to obey company safety regulations and in such cases the wages shall be paid up to the time of dismissal only.
