AP784988CRV - Insurance Industry Award 1998
A respondent may employ persons on a casual basis in appropriate circumstances.
11.1 Unless otherwise prescribed the terms of this award will apply to employees employed on a casual basis. However;
11.1(a) the contract of employment shall be on an hourly basis with a minimum of three hours on each occasion the employee is required to work;
11.1(b) a casual employee must be paid as a minimum an hourly rate calculated by dividing the appropriate weekly salary by the standard weekly office hours of the employer, and a loading of 25 per cent of that hourly rate. The appropriate weekly salary will be that determined by the grade into which the casual employee's job falls;
11.2 The 25 per cent loading prescribed in 11.1(b) above is in lieu of annual leave, personal leave and public holiday provisions and to compensate for the nature of casual employment
11.3 Caring responsibilities
[11.3 inserted by PR969170 ppc 23Jan06]
11.3.1 Subject to the evidentiary and notice requirements in 23.6 and 23.5, casual employees are entitled to not be available to attend work, or to leave work:
11.3.1(a) 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
11.3.1(b) upon the death in Australia of an immediate family or household member.
11.3.2 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.
11.3.3 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.
