AP818795 - Queensland Post Compulsory and Higher Education Academic Staff (Conditions of Employment) Award 2002
14.1 An employee who has completed or hereafter completes not less than ten years of continuous service shall, subject to this clause, be entitled to long service leave at the rate of 1.3 weeks on full pay for each year of his or her continuous service and a proportionate amount for a part of an incomplete year.
14.2 An employee who has taken or hereafter takes long service leave shall again be entitled upon completion of the period to long service leave, but no employee shall be entitled to further long service leave under this provision unless and until the minimum period of such leave which may be granted to the employee is 4 weeks. The period of such long service leave shall be calculated as provided in subclause 1 hereof in respect of the whole of the employee's continuous service after deducting there from any long service leave previously taken.
14.3 An employee who ceases to be an employee and who at the date of ceasing to be an employee has an entitlement to long service leave as determined under subclauses 14.1 and 14.2 shall receive a payment in lieu of long service leave not taken. For the purposes of this subclause, the following provisions apply to the calculation of an employee's entitlement to long service leave:
14.3.1 Where an employee is declared surplus to requirements the number of years of continuous service required to have been completed by that employee before being entitled to long service leave shall be one year. This subclause shall not apply to employees of ACU.
14.3.2 Where an employee retires any time after age 55 years, or ceases to be employed due to ill-health, the number of years of continuous service required to have been completed by that employee before being entitled to long service leave shall be five years.
14.3.3 Where an employee dies, the amount which would have been payable to that employee pursuant to this subclause had that employee retired or been terminated due to ill-health on the date on which the employee actually died shall be paid to the employee's dependants (if any) or, if there be no dependants, to that employee's personal representative.
For the purposes of this subsection, a dependant means, in relation to a deceased employee, any person who, in the opinion of the University, was being wholly or substantially maintained or supported by the deceased employee at the date of the employee's death.
14.4 If at any time an employee would be entitled to long service leave or payment in lieu under the provisions the Queensland Industrial Relations Act 1999 he or she will be granted such entitlement notwithstanding that this clause would not give him or her an entitlement.
14.5 Long service leave will be taken in accordance with the provisions of the University and Post Compulsory Conditions Award 1999. An employee entitled to long service leave under subclause 14.3.1 may take such leave in periods of not less than four weeks subject to agreement by the University. In special and exceptional circumstances the University may grant long service leave for such period of less than 4 weeks as it thinks fit, but in no case shall such period be less than 2 weeks.
