AP777903 - Crisis Assistance Supported Housing (Queensland) Award 1999

12. CASUAL EMPLOYMENT

12.1 A casual employee is an employee engaged as such and intermittently for work of an unexpected or casual nature.

12.2 An employee engaged as a casual employee shall be engaged for a minimum period of two consecutive hours for each period of engagement.

12.3 The ordinary hours for a casual employee shall be within the ordinary span of hours specified in clause 27 – Hours of work. A casual employee shall be paid for such hours worked at a rate equal to one thirty-eighth of the appropriate weekly rate prescribed in clause 20 – Wages, plus a loading of 20%.

12.4 Caring responsibilities

[12.4 inserted by PR966380 ppc 14Dec05]

12.4.1 Subject to the evidentiary and notice requirements in 34.3.1 and 34.4.1(b), casual employees are entitled to not be available to attend work, or to leave work:

• if they need to care for members of their immediate family or household who are sick and require care and support, or who require care due to an unexpected emergency, or the birth of a child; or
• upon the death in Australia of an immediate family or household member.

12.4.2 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.

12.4.3 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.