AN120684 – Plumbers and Gasfitters (State) Consolidated Award
(i) The first Monday in December of each year shall be the Union picnic day.
(ii) All employees shall, as far as practicable, be given and shall take this day as picnic day and shall be paid therefor as for eight hours' work at the rates of pay prescribed by clause 6, Wages. Any employee required to work on such day shall be paid at the rate of double time and a half for all time worked and shall be paid for not less than four hours' work.
(iii) An employer may require from an employee evidence of his/her attendance at the picnic and the production of the butt of a picnic ticket, issued for the picnic, shall be sufficient evidence of such attendance. Where such evidence is requested by the employer payment need not be made unless the evidence is produced.
(iv) Where the employer holds or observes a regular picnic for his/her employees on some other working day during the year, then such day may be given and may be taken as the picnic in lieu of the picnic day herein fixed.
(v) The employee who has worked as required by his/her employer the working day immediately before and the working day immediately after such a picnic day or is absent with permission of his/her employer or is absent with reasonable cause shall be paid a day's ordinary wages for such picnic day.
(vi) An employer who terminates the employment of an employee prior to within ten consecutive days of picnic day, except for reasons of misconduct or incompetency (proof of which shall lie on the employer), shall pay the employee a day's ordinary wages.
(vii) This clause shall apply only to employees covered by clause 6, Wages, working within the counties of Cumberland, Camden and Northumberland and in such other areas where a picnic organized by the union is held.
(viii) This subclause shall apply to all apprentices not covered by subclauses (i) to (iv) of this clause:
Where an apprentice covered by this award is employed in an industry where the general body of the employees are covered by an award or industrial agreement which prescribed a picnic day such apprentice shall be granted the picnic day so prescribed; provided that where it is necessary for an apprentice to work on such day he/she shall be paid at the rate of double time for all time worked and shall be paid for not less than four hours' work, or shall be granted one day's leave with pay in lieu thereof.
(ix) The provisions of this clause shall not apply to any apprentice who is required to attend a technical college, school or registered training organisation for the purpose of receiving trade instructions and/or submitting himself/herself for any examination. In such case the employer and the apprentice mutually shall agree that the apprentice shall be allowed another working day off with pay in lieu of the picnic day. Where this is not practicable the apprentice shall be paid at the overtime rates prescribed herein.
