AN160080 – Clerks' (Wholesale & Retail Establishments) Award No. 38 of 1947
(1) An employer may direct an employee to carry out such duties as are within the limits of the employees' skill, competence and training.
(2) The employment of any employee shall be terminable by one week's notice on either side. If such notice is not given one week's wages shall be paid or forfeited as the case may be. Provided that an employee may be summarily dismissed for gross misconduct, in which case he or she shall be paid up to the time of dismissal only.
(3) (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of subclause (2) hereof the employer may stand down without pay any employee who cannot be usefully employed because of any strike, ban, limitation or restriction on the performance of work by employees, or any union, association, or organisation, or because of any break down or failure of the employer's machinery which the employer could not reasonably have prevented.
(b) The provisions of paragraph (a) of this subclause shall not be applied unless and until the ordinary hours in which the employee cannot be usefully employed because of a strike, ban, limitation, or restriction on the performance of work or a break down or failure of the employer's machinery exceeds four.
