AN120332 – Mechanical Opticians (State) Award
(i) An employee shall be entitled to the following public holidays without loss of pay: New Year’s Day, Australia Day, Good Friday, Easter Saturday, Easter Monday, Anzac Day, Queen’s Birthday, Eight Hour Day, Christmas Day and Boxing Day, together with all other days proclaimed as public holidays throughout the State.
(ii) In addition to the public holidays prescribed in subclause (i) of this clause, one additional public holiday shall apply to an employee on weekly hire, the said public holiday to be arranged by agreement between the employees and the union.
(iii) An employee shall be paid at the rate of double time and one-half for work done on public holidays and such double time and one-half shall continue until he/she is relieved from duty. In addition he/she shall have one day’s paid holiday added to his/her annual leave for each public holiday so worked.
(iv) An employee whose services are dispensed with by an employer within fourteen days of an award holiday and who is re-engaged by the same employer within fourteen days after the holiday or holidays shall be paid an ordinary day’s pay for each holiday occurring within such period at the prescribed rate for the class of work performed prior to services being dispensed with.
(v) An employee who without permission of his/her employer or without reasonable cause absents himself or herself from duty on the working day immediately preceding or the working day immediately succeeding any public holiday or series of public holidays shall not be entitled to payment for such public holiday, or series of public holidays; provided that if an employee absents himself or herself as aforesaid on one only of the working days preceding or succeeding a series of public holidays he/she shall lose holiday pay for the holiday closest to the day of his/her absence.
