AP825433 - Coles Supermarkets Australia Pty Ltd and Bi-Lo Pty Limited Clerical and Administrative Employees Award 2003
PART 4 - EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIP
10. TYPES OF EMPLOYMENT
10.1 General
10.1.1 Employees under this award will be employed in one of the following categories:
10.1.2 At the time of engagement an employer will inform each employee of the terms of their engagement and in particular whether they are to be full-time, regular part-time or casual.
10.2 Full-time employees
Full-time employees will be engaged on a weekly hire on the basis of working 152 hours in any four week cycle.
10.3 Part-time employees
10.3.1 The Company may employ part-time employees on a weekly hire in any classification in this award.
10.3.2 A part-time employee is an employee who:
10.3.3 At the time of engagement the employer and the regular part-time employee will agree in writing, on a regular pattern of work, specifying at least the hours worked each day, which days of the week the employee will work and the actual starting and finishing times each day.
10.3.4 Any agreed variation to the regular pattern of work will be recorded in writing.
10.3.5 An employee who does not meet the definition of a part-time employee and who is not a full-time employee will be paid as a casual employee in accordance with 10.4.
10.3.6 All time worked in excess of the hours as mutually arranged will be overtime and paid for at the rates prescribed in clause 23 - Overtime.
10.4 Casual employment
10.4.1 A casual employee may be engaged for work on an hourly basis at any time Monday - Saturday, with a minimum engagement of three hours on each occasion required.
10.4.2 Casual employees must be paid at the termination of each engagement, however the employee may agree to be paid weekly or fortnightly.
10.4.3 Caring responsibilities
[10.4.3 inserted by PR970514 ppc 16Mar06]
10.4.3(a) Subject to the evidentiary and notice requirements in clause 25, casual employees are entitled to not be available to attend work, or to leave work:
10.4.3(b) 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.
10.4.3(c) 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.
10.5 Limited tenure employees
Limited tenure employees will be engaged on the basis of the conditions mentioned in 10.2.
10.6 Standing down of employees
The Company has the right to deduct payment for any day an employee cannot be usefully employed because of any strike or through any breakdown in machinery or any stoppage of work for which the Company cannot reasonably be held responsible.
