AN120435 – Private Hospital Industry Nurses' (State) Award
(i) Except for misconduct justifying summary dismissal, the services of an employee shall be terminated only by fourteen days notice or by the payment of fourteen days salary in lieu thereof in the case of an employee other than a director of nursing, and by twenty eight days notice or by the payment of twenty eight days salary in lieu thereof in the case of a director of nursing.
(ii) No employee shall, without the consent of the employer, resign without having given fourteen days notice (or in the case of a director of nursing, twenty eight days notice) of intention so to do or forfeiting salary earned during the pay period current at the time of resignation; provided that in no circumstances shall the employee other than a Director of Nursing forfeit more than fourteen days pay, and a director of nursing more than twenty eight days pay at the rates prescribed for her or his classification by Clause 8, Salaries, of this award.
(iii) Upon the termination of the services of an employee the employer shall furnish the employee with a written statement, surely signed by or on behalf of the employer, setting out the period of the employment and the capacity in which the employee was employed.
(iv) Employees who have accrued additional days off duty pursuant to subclause (vii) of Clause 3, Hours of Work and Free Time of Employees Other Than Directors of Nursing, shall be paid for such accrued time at ordinary rate of pay upon termination.
