AN150130 – Retail Industry (South Australia) Award

CLAUSE 7.6 PUBLIC HOLIDAYS
OPDATE 15:03:2006 1st pp on or after

7.6.1 If an employee (other than a casual employee) is not required by the employer to work any part of the employee's ordinary hours on a public holiday, the employee is entitled to be absent from work on that public holiday. An employee absent from work on a public holiday in accordance with this clause must be paid the appropriate wages for the number of ordinary hours that the employee would have worked if it had not been a public holiday.

7.6.2 Where a full-time or part-time employee is absent from employment on the working day before or after a public holiday without reasonable excuse or without the consent of the employer, the employee is not entitled to payment for the public holiday.

7.6.3 Public holidays are the days (or substitute days) on which the following holidays are observed:

New Year's Day	Adelaide Cup Day
Australia Day	Queen's Birthday
Good Friday	Labour Day
The day after Good Friday	Christmas Day
Easter Monday	Proclamation Day
Anzac Day

Any other day which is declared to be a public holiday pursuant to the Holidays Act 1910 shall be a public holiday for the purposes of this clause.

7.6.4 This paragraph applies where employees work part of their ordinary hours on a public holiday and where those employees are paid pursuant to Schedule 1. Such employees shall be paid at the rate of double time for all hours so worked. The rate of double time for such an employee shall be calculated by reference to the appropriate hourly rate set out in column 2 or 3 of Schedule 1.

7.6.5 This clause applies where employees paid pursuant to Schedule 2 work part of their ordinary hours on a public holiday. Such employees will be paid at the rate of double time for all hours so worked. The rate of double time for such an employee will be calculated by reference to the appropriate hourly rate set out in columns 2 and 3 of Schedule 2.

7.6.6 This paragraph applies where employees work part of their ordinary hours on a public holiday and where those employees are paid pursuant to Schedule 3. Such employees (whether full-time, part-time or casual) shall be paid at the rate of double time for all hours so worked. The rate of double time shall be calculated by reference to the appropriate hourly rates set out in column 2 of Schedule 3.

7.6.7 Employees paid pursuant to Schedule 4 who work any part of their ordinary hours on a public holiday shall be paid in accordance with clause 4.10.