AP765516 - Airline Operations (Qantas Airways Limited) Award 1999
31.1 Public holidays
31.1.1 Employees other than casual employees are entitled to the following holidays without loss of pay:
31.1.1(a) New Year's Day, Australia Day, Good Friday, Easter Saturday, Easter Monday, Queen's Birthday, Labour Day, Anzac Day, Christmas Day, and Boxing Day (except in South Australia, where employees are entitled to Commemoration Day) or such other days as are generally observed in the locality as a substitute for any of the said days respectively.
31.1.1(b) one other day for the employees in each particular state or area:
31.1.1(c) any additional days declared or prescribed as public holidays in a State, Territory or locality.
31.1.2 When Christmas Day is on a weekend, employees are entitled to a holiday in lieu on 27 December.
31.1.3 When Boxing Day is on a weekend, employees are entitled to a holiday in lieu on 28 December.
31.1.4 When New Year's Day or Australia Day is on a weekend, employees are entitled to a holiday in lieu on the next Monday.
31.2 Substituted holidays
31.2.1 Another day may be substituted for any day prescribed in this paragraph by agreement between the Company and the Union; or the Company and a majority of the affected employees.
31.2.2 If an agreement is made between the Company and a majority of its affected employees to substitute a day prescribed in this subclause:
31.2.2(a) the agreement must be in writing and available to every affected employee;
31.2.2(b) the Union must be informed of the agreement and may refuse to accept it within seven days. The union must not unreasonably refuse to accept the agreement.
31.3 Rostered day off falling on a public holiday
If a dayworker's rostered day off (twentieth day) falls on a public holiday, the day worker is entitled to a day off in lieu, to be paid at ordinary time.
31.4 Shiftworkers’ day off falling on a public holiday
31.4.1 If a shift worker is rostered off on a public holiday, the shift worker is entitled to a day off in lieu, to be paid at ordinary time.
31.4.2 The shift worker must apply to the Company for the day off in lieu. The day off must be on a day agreed between the Company and the shift worker. The day or days off may accumulate up to the time the employee takes annual leave. When the employee takes annual leave, the day or days may be added to the period of annual leave, or may be paid for at single time rate of pay. Where the Company and employee agree, the employee may add some of the accumulated days to the period of annual leave and have the rest paid out.
31.5 Absence before or after a public holiday
If an employee is absent from work on the working day before and/or after a public holiday without reasonable excuse or without the consent of the Company, the employee is not entitled to be paid for the public holiday.
