AN140152 – Jewellers and Watchmakers Award - State 2003
7.6.1 Subject to clause 7.6.6 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);
- 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 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 time rate of pay prescribed for such work with a minimum of 4 hours.
7.6.3 Annual show
All work done by employees in a district specified from time to time by the Minister by notification published in the Industrial 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.
7.6.4 Double time and a-half
For the purposes of clause 7.6 "double time and a-half" means one and a-half day's wages in addition to the employee's ordinary time rate of pay or pro rata if there is more or less than a day.
7.6.5 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.
7.6.6 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 of double time and a-half at the employees' ordinary time rate of pay.
7.6.7 If a public holiday falls on an employee's day off, such employee shall be granted a day's holiday in lieu at a time to be mutually agreed upon.
7.6.8 Casual employees shall be paid when working on public holiday at the rate which does not exceed that payable to a permanent employee.
7.6.9 Employees other than casuals shall be entitled to payment for the aforesaid holidays where that day forms part of the ordinary working week irrespective of the fact that no work may be required to be performed on any such day.
