AN120221 – Funeral Industries (State) Award 2005
(i) For annual holidays all employees, other than Branch Managers, Resident Managers and Resident Arranging Officers, see Annual Holidays Act 1944.
(ii) Branch Managers, Resident Managers and Resident Arranging Officers shall, at the end of each year of employment by an employer, become entitled to an annual holiday of five working weeks on ordinary pay; provided that when a holiday specified in Clause 17 - Holidays, of this award, falls within the Branch Manager's, Resident Manager's and Resident Arranging Officer's annual leave period an additional day shall be added to his/her annual leave for each such holiday.
(iii) The carrying on of the branch during the Branch Manager's, Resident Manager's and Resident Arranging Officer's annual leave shall be by mutual arrangement between the employer, Branch Manager or Resident Arranging Manager and Resident Arranging Officer going on leave. In the event of the parties being unable to agree the matter shall be referred to the Funeral Industry (State) Conciliation Committee.
(iv)
(a) In the event of a Branch Manager, Resident Manager or Resident Arranging Officer being dismissed or leaving his/her employment, and that period of employment is less than twelve months, his/her annual leave entitlement shall be at the rate of 5/47ths of his/her ordinary rate of pay for the number of weeks he/she was so employed. Payment shall be made by the employer at the termination of the employee's services.
(b) Only in the circumstances mentioned in paragraph (a) of this subclause shall an employer make payment in lieu of annual holidays, and only under the same circumstances shall an employee receive such payment. For the purposes of administering this clause the term (ordinary pay) shall be as defined in the Annual Holidays Act 1944.
