AN120484 – Saddlery, Leather, Canvas and Plastic Material Workers' (State) Award
(a) All employees shall be entitled to the holidays hereinafter mentioned or any day observed in lieu thereof without deduction of pay:
(i) New Year's Day, Australia Day, Good Friday, Easter Saturday, Easter Monday, Anzac Day, Queen's Birthday, Labour Day, Christmas Day and Boxing Day, together with all other days proclaimed as public holidays throughout the State.
(ii) The first Monday in August shall be an additional award holiday provided that in establishments where the majority of employees are entitled to another day as an additional award holiday then such additional holiday shall be observed in lieu of the abovementioned Monday; provided further that by agreement between any employer and the majority of employees concerned another day may be substituted for this additional holiday in respect of that employer's undertaking.
(b) Pieceworkers shall be paid for such holidays even though not worked at the ordinary rates payable to employees not on piecework doing the same class of work. The rate shall be one-fifth of the appropriate weekly wage.
(c) If an employee's engagement is lawfully terminated otherwise than for misconduct within two weeks of any of the holidays abovementioned, he or she shall be paid for such holiday unless he or she commences work with another employer and is paid by such employer for such holiday or holidays.
(d) Where an employee is absent from his or her employment on the working day before or after a holiday without reasonable excuse or without the employer's consent such employee shall not be entitled to payment for such holiday. The amount to be deducted shall be one-fifth, as the case may be, of the appropriate weekly wage.
(e) In the case of an employee whose ordinary hours of work are arranged in accordance with paragraphs (b)(iii) or (b)(iv) of clause 11A, Implementation of 38 Hour-Week, the weekday to be taken off shall not coincide with a public holiday fixed in accordance with paragraphs (a)(i) and (ii) of this clause. Provided that, in the event that a public holiday is prescribed after an employee has been given notice of his/her weekday off in accordance with subclause (g) of the said clause 11A and the public holiday falls on the weekday the employee is to take off, the employer shall allow the employee to take the day off on an alternative weekday.
