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AN140296 – Teachers' Award - Non-Governmental Schools 2003

7.8 PUBLIC HOLIDAYS

7.8.1 An 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.

7.8.2 All work done by any employee on:

will be paid for at the rate of double time and a-half with a minimum of 4 hours.

7.8.3 Double time and a-half

For the purposes of clause 7.8, 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.

7.8.4 Work done on any other holiday shall not be deemed overtime or be paid for at an increased rate.

7.8.5 Annual show

All work done by an employee 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 shall 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.

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