AN120470 – Retail Services Employees (State) Award
(i) All employees except Retail Building Assistants and seven day shift workers - See Annual Holidays Act 1944.
(ii) Retail Building Assistants and seven-day shift workers - In addition to the benefits provided by section 3 of the said Act with regard to an annual holiday of four weeks, a Retail Building Assistant and a seven-day shift worker at the end of each year of their employment shall be entitled to the additional leave as prescribed below:
(1) If during the said year of employment the employee has served continuously as a Retail Building Assistant or seven-day shift worker, the additional leave with respect to that year shall be one week.
(2) If during the said year of employment the employee has served only a portion of it as a Retail Building Assistant, or seven-day shift worker, the additional leave shall be 3.5 hours for each completed month of employment as a Retail Building Assistant or, provided that where the additional leave is or comprises a fraction of a day, such fraction shall not form part of the leave period and any such fraction shall be discharged by payment only.
Where the employment of a Retail Building Assistant or seven-day shift worker is terminated and there is thereby an entitlement, under section 4 of the Annual Holidays Act 1944, to payment in lieu of an annual holiday with respect to a period of employment, the employee also shall be entitled to an additional payment of 3.5 hours at such ordinary rate of pay for each completed month of service as a Retail Building Assistant or seven-day shift worker.
(iii) For the purposes of this clause, a seven-day shift worker means an employee whose ordinary working hours includes shift work on Sundays and/or holidays on which he/she may be regularly rostered for work.
