AP817220 - Nurses (South Australian Public Sector) Award 2002
3.2.1 A casual employee is paid per hour at the hourly rate prescribed for the class of work performed, plus a loading of 20% in lieu of annual leave, sick leave or payment for public holidays not worked.
3.2.2 Casual employees are entitled to increments for service in a classification in accordance with the following scale:
3.2.2(a) Where the employee works for an average of between fifteen and 25 hours per week - after 24 months on the salary for that increment.
3.2.2(b) Where the employee works for more than an average of 25 hours per week up to and including an average of 35 hours per week after eighteen months on the salary for that increment.
3.2.2(c) Where the employee works for more than an average of 35 hours per week after twelve months on the salary for that classification.
3.2.3 Caring responsibilities
[3.2.3 inserted by PR970642 ppc 24Mar06]
3.2.3(a) 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.
3.2.3(b) 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.
