AN140088 – Credit Unions' Administrative and Clerical Officers' Award - State 2002
7.6.1 An employee (other than a casual employee) who would ordinarily be required to work on a day on which a public holiday falls is entitled to full pay for the time the employee would ordinarily have been required to perform work on that day.
7.6.2 All work done by any employee on:
- Good Friday;
- Christmas Day;
- the twenty-fifth day of April (Anzac Day);
- the first day of January;
- the 26th day of January;
- Easter Saturday (the day after Good Friday);
- Easter Monday;
- The Birthday of the Sovereign; and
- Boxing Day; or
- any day appointed under the Holidays Act 1983, to be kept in place of any such holiday
will be paid for at the rate of double time and a-half with a minimum of 4 hours.
7.6.3 Labour Day
All employees covered by this Award are entitled to be paid a full day's wage for Labour Day (the first Monday in May or other day appointed under the Holidays Act 1983, to be kept in place of that holiday) irrespective of the fact that no work may be performed on such day, and if any employee concerned actually works on Labour Day, such employee will be paid a full day's wage for that day and in addition a payment for the time actually worked by the employee at one and a-half times the ordinary rate prescribed for such work with a minimum of 4 hours.
7.6.4 Annual show
All work done by employees in a district specified from time to time by the Minister by notification published in the Gazette on the day appointed under the Holidays Act 1983, to be kept as a holiday in relation to the annual agricultural, horticultural or industrial show held at the principal city or town, as specified in such notification of such district will be paid for at the rate of double time and a-half with a minimum of 4 hours.
In a district in which a holiday is not appointed for an annual agricultural, horticultural or industrial show, the employee and employer must agree on an ordinary working day that is to be treated as a show holiday for all purposes.
7.6.5 Employees who do not work Monday to Friday of each week
In the case of employees who do not ordinarily work Monday to Friday of each week they are entitled to public holidays as follows:
(a) A full-time employee is entitled to either payment for each public holiday or a substituted day's leave.
(b) A part-time employee is entitled to either payment for each public holidays or a substituted day's leave provided that the part-time employee would have been ordinarily rostered to work on that day had it not been a public holiday.
(c) Where a public holiday would have fallen on a Saturday or a Sunday but is substituted for another day all employees who would ordinarily have worked on such Saturday or Sunday but who are not rostered to work on such day are entitled to payment for the public holiday or a substituted day's leave.
(d) Where Christmas Day falls on a Saturday or a Sunday and the public holiday is observed on another day an employee required to work on Christmas Day (i.e. 25 December) is to be paid at the rate of double time.
(e) Nothing in clause 7.6 confers a right to any employee to payment for a public holiday as well as a substituted day in lieu
7.6.6 Double time and one-half
For the purposes of clause 7.6, where the rate of wages is a weekly rate, "double time and a-half" means one and one-half day's wages in addition to the prescribed weekly rate, or pro rata if there is more or less than a day.
7.6.7 Stand down
Any employee, with 2 weeks' or more of continuous service, whose employment has been terminated by the employer or who has been stood down by the employer during the month of December, and who is re-employed in January of the following year, shall be entitled to payment at the ordinary rate payable to that employee when they were dismissed or stood down, for any one or more of the following holidays, namely, Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year's Day.
7.6.8 Substitution
Where there is agreement between the employer and the majority of employees concerned, a public holiday, may be substituted for another day. If such other day is worked, then payment for that day will be at the rate applicable for the holiday that has been substituted.
