AN120332 – Mechanical Opticians (State) Award

10. CASUAL AND PART-TIME EMPLOYEES

(i) "Casual employee" shall mean an employee who is engaged and paid as such, whose spread of ordinary hours shall be set out in subclause (iii) of clause 7, Hours, and whose rate of pay shall be calculated pursuant to subclause (vi) of clause 4, Wages.

(ii) "Part-time employee" shall mean an adult employee who is employed to work regular days and regular hours, either of which are less than the number of days or hours worked by weekly employees, employed by the employer, but such days shall not be less than 3 per week and such hours shall not be less than 15 per week:

(a) The spread of ordinary hours of part-time employees shall be as set out in subclause (iv) of clause 7, Hours, of this award and their rate of pay shall be calculated pursuant to subclause (vii) of clause 4, Wages, of this award.

(b) Notwithstanding anything else contained in this award, the provisions of this award with respect to annual leave, annual leave loading, sick leave, jury service, bereavement leave and holidays shall apply to part-time employees.

(c) A part-time employee shall not be employed to replace a full-time employee. The ratio of part-time employees to full-time employees shall not exceed 1:3.

(d) Notwithstanding the provisions of this clause, the majority of employees and an employer may agree in writing to observe other conditions in order to meet special cases.

(iii) Employers employing casual and part-time employees shall observe wages and conditions generally applied to weekly employees.