AN120179 – Dental Assistants and Secretaries (State) Award

20. ATTENDANCE AT TECHNICAL COLLEGE

Any time occupied by an employee within the County of Cumberland who has enrolled to attend a dental assistants' course during ordinary working hours shall be given time off to attend such course, except in the event of an unforeseen emergency arising in the surgery requiring the presence of the assistant, including the time occupied in travelling between the surgery where he/she is employed and the college and in attending such course at the college and such time shall be calculated as part of the ordinary hours of work and paid as such.

This subclause applies only in respect of a course conducted for dental assistants by a college of the NSW Department of Education and Training or the NSW Dental Assistants Association.