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AN160214 – Mineral Sands Mining and Processing Industry Award 1981

15. - HOLIDAYS

(1) (a) The following days or the days observed in lieu shall, subject to clauses 9. - Overtime, and 12. - Sunday and Holiday Work, hereof, 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 this subclause.

(b) When any of the Public Holidays prescribed in paragraph (a) falls on a Saturday or a Sunday, such holiday shall be observed on the next succeeding Monday, and when Boxing Day falls on a Sunday or on a Monday, such 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.

(2) An employee who is absent from work without leave and without reasonable excuse on the working day succeeding a day observed as a holiday pursuant to this clause, is not entitled to payment for that holiday.

(3) This clause does not apply to casual employees.

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