AN170068 – Mobile Crane Hire Award
(a) A weekly hire employee shall be entitled to a maximum of three days leave without deduction of pay:
(i) On each occasion of the death within Australia of the employee's husband, wife, de facto husband, de facto wife, father, mother, brother, sister or child, grandparents, grandchildren, mother-in-law or father-in-law;
(ii) On each occasion the employee travels overseas in connection with the death outside Australia of one of the relatives specified in subclause (i).
(b) Unpaid Bereavement Leave
An employee may take unpaid bereavement leave by agreement with the employer.
(c) Casual Employees
(i) Subject to the evidentiary requirements in subclause (a), casual employees are entitled to not be available to attend work, or to leave work upon the death in Australia of an immediate family or household member.
(ii) The employer and the employee shall agree on the period for which the employee will be entitled to not be available to attend work. In the absence of agreement, the employee is entitled to not be available to attend work for up to 48 hours (i.e. two days) per occasion. The casual employee is not entitled to any payment for the period of non-attendance.
(iii) An employer must not fail to re-engage a casual employee because the employee accessed the entitlements provided for in this clause. The rights of an employer to engage or not to engage a casual employee are otherwise not affected.
