AP811245 - Timber Industry – CFMEU Wood Panels – Award 2000

34B. CASUAL EMPLOYMENT

[34B inserted by PR969388 ppc 10Mar06]

34B.1 Caring responsibilities

34B.1.1 Subject to the evidentiary and notice requirements in 34.9.3, 34.9.4 and 34.9.6, 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.

34B.1.2 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.

34B.1.3 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.