AN120221 – Funeral Industries (State) Award 2005
(i) The following day or days observed as such shall be holidays, viz., New Year's Day, Australia Day, Good Friday, Easter Saturday, Easter Monday, Anzac Day, Queen's Birthday, Labour Day or Eight Hour Day, Christmas Day, Boxing Day and all days proclaimed or observed as holidays for the State.
(ii) All days mentioned in subclause (i) of this clause shall be closed days, with the exception of Easter Monday, Easter Saturday and Queens Birthday and shall be free from work except arranging transfers, removals, deliveries, coffining, trimming and/or preservation work; provided that when the observance of Boxing Day results in there being four consecutive holidays then on that occasion Boxing Day shall not be a closed day.
(iii) Every employee allowed a holiday specified herein shall be deemed to have worked, in the week in which the holiday falls, the number of ordinary working hours he/she would have worked had the day not been a holiday and shall be paid at the appropriate rate of pay prescribed by this award.
(iv) An employee required to work on a holiday shall be so notified not later than 5.00 p.m. on the day preceding the holiday.
(v) A relieving manager shall be paid for all holidays specified in this clause if they occur whilst he/she is relieving in a branch or head office or be given another day off in lieu of each such holiday within 14 days from the termination of his/her relief duty.
(vi) Employees will not be entitled to the payment specified in subclause (iii) for holidays prescribed in subclause (i) of this Clause if the employee has not complied with the requirements of subclause (iv)(d) of Clause 22 of this Award.
