AN160066 – Clerks (Commercial, Social and Professional Services) Award No. 14 of 1972
(1) The following days or the days observed in lieu shall subject to Clause 8. - Overtime, and subject as hereinafter provided, be allowed as holidays without deduction of pay, namely - New Year's Day, Australia Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Anzac Day, Labour Day, Foundation Day, Sovereign's Birthday, Christmas Day and Boxing Day. Provided that another day may be taken as a holiday by arrangement between the parties in lieu of any of the days named in the subclause.
(2) When any of the days mentioned in subclause (1) hereof falls on a Saturday or a Sunday the holiday shall be observed on the next succeeding Monday and when Boxing Day falls on a Sunday or a Monday, the holiday shall be observed on the next succeeding Tuesday. In each case the substituted day shall be a holiday without deduction of pay and the day for which it is substituted shall not be a holiday.
(3) On any public holiday not prescribed as a holiday under this Award, the employer's establishment or place of business may be closed, in which case an employee need not present himself for duty, and payment may be deducted, but if work be done ordinary rates of pay shall apply.
(4) Where -
(a) a day is proclaimed as a whole public holiday or a half public holiday under section 7 of the Public and Bank Holidays Act, 1972; and
(b) that proclamation does not apply throughout the State or to the metropolitan area of the State,
that day shall be a whole public holiday or, as the case may be, a half public holiday for the purposes of this Award within the district or locality specified in the proclamation.
(5) When any of the days mentioned in subclause (1) hereof falls on an employee's rostered day off the employer and the employee may agree that the employee receive:
(a) an additional day's wages; or
(b) another day off may be allowed within twenty-eight days of the award holiday; or
(c) an additional day off may be taken in conjunction with a period of annual leave.
(6) All ordinary hours of work performed on a holiday provided by this clause, shall be paid at the rate of double time and a half.
(7) Except for the provisions of subclause (6) hereof, the provisions of this clause shall not apply to casual employees.
