AN140115 – Fertilizer Industry Award - State 2003
7.6.1 Subject to clause 7.6.5, all work done by any employee on:
- the 1st January;
- the 26th January;
- Good Friday;
- Easter Saturday (the day after Good Friday);
- Easter Monday;
- the 25th April (Anzac Day);
- Labour Day (the first Monday in May)
- The Birthday of the Sovereign;
- Christmas Day;
- 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.
7.6.2 Annual show
Moreover, all work done by an employee in a district specified from time to time by the Minister by notification published in the Gazette or the Queensland Government Industrial Gazette on the day appointed under the Holidays Act 1983-1985 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 shall be paid for at the rate of double time and a-half.
All time worked on any of the aforesaid holidays outside the ordinary starting and ceasing times prescribed by this Award for the day of the week on which such holiday falls shall be paid for at double the rate prescribed by the Award for such time when worked outside the ordinary starting and ceasing times on an ordinary working day.
7.6.3 Double time and one-half
Employees required to work on any of the aforesaid holidays shall be paid for a minimum of 4 hours work at double time and a-half.
7.6.4 Stand down
Any and every employee who, having been dismissed or stood down by their employer during the month of December in any year, and who is re-employed by that employer at any time before the end of the month of January in the next succeeding year, shall, if that employee shall have been employed by that employer for a continuous period of 2 weeks or longer immediately prior to being so dismissed or stood down, be entitled to be paid and shall be paid by their employer (at the rate payable to that employee when so dismissed or stood down) for any one or more of the following holidays, namely Christmas Day, Boxing Day and the first day of January occurring during the period on and from the date of their dismissal or standing down to and including the date of their re-employment as aforesaid.
7.6.5 Holidays in lieu
Should any of the holidays mentioned in clause 7.6 fall on an employee's day or days off, such employee shall receive another one or 2 days off as the case may be in lieu thereof, or one or 2 days shall be added to the employee's annual leave, or alternatively, one or 2 days' wages at ordinary rates shall be paid in addition to the full-time wage.
Where there is agreement between the majority of employees concerned and the employer, and subject to statutory limitations, other ordinary working days may be substituted for the public holidays specified in clause 7.6:
Provided that, where an employee is subsequently required to work on such substituted day, the employee shall be paid the rate applicable for the holiday that has been substituted.
