AP839983 - Airline Operations - Licensed Aircraft Engineers - Qantas Airways Limited - Award 2005
27.1 Prescribed public holidays
Employees are entitled to the following holidays without loss of pay:
27.1.1 New Year’s Day, Australia Day, Good Friday, Easter Saturday, Easter Monday, Anzac Day, Queen’s Birthday, Eight Hours’ Day or Labour Day, Christmas Day, and Boxing Day (except in South Australia, where employees are entitled to Commemoration Day); and
27.1.2 one other day, being the following:
27.1.3 If an additional public holiday is declared or prescribed within a State, Territory or locality, that day will be deemed to be a holiday for the purposes of this award, for employees employed in that State, Territory or locality.
27.2 Certain public holidays and weekends
27.2.1 When Christmas Day falls on a weekend employees will be entitled to a holiday in lieu on 27 December. In relation to full-time workers whose ordinary hours are regularly rostered to be worked on a Saturday or Sunday, when substitution occurs because Christmas Day falls on a weekend, ordinary hours worked on 25 December will attract an additional loading to the Sunday/Saturday rate of one half of the employee’s ordinary day’s wages, and the employee will also be entitled to the benefit of the substituted public holiday.
27.2.2 When Boxing Day falls on a weekend employees will be entitled to a holiday in lieu on 28 December.
27.2.3 When New Year’s Day or Australia Day falls on a weekend employees will be entitled to a holiday in lieu on the next Monday after that weekend.
27.3 Substituted holidays
27.3.1 The Company may agree to substitute another day for any public holiday prescribed in this clause if a majority of the affected employees agree.
27.3.2 If the agreement is pursuant to 27.3.1, the agreement must be recorded in writing and be available to all affected employees and the union(s).
27.4 Rostered day off falling on a public holiday
27.4.1 If a shift worker is rostered off on a public holiday, the shift worker is entitled to a day off in lieu, to be paid at ordinary time.
27.4.2 The shift worker must apply to the Company for the day off in lieu. The day off must be on a day agreed between the Company and the shift worker. The day or days off may accumulate up to the time the employee takes annual leave. When the employee takes annual leave, the day or days may be added to the period of annual leave, or may be paid for at single time rate of pay. If the Company and employee agree, the employee may add some of the accumulated days to the period of annual leave and have the rest paid out.
27.5 Payment for working on public holidays
27.5.1 Employees other than shift workers who work on public holidays must be paid at the rate of double time and a half for all time worked on public holidays.
27.5.2 Employees required to work on public holidays must be paid for a minimum of four hours. If more than four hours are worked the employee must be paid for the period actually worked.
27.5.3 Shift workers who work on a public holiday will be paid at the rate of double time, except when they work on Good Friday or the Christmas Day holiday, where they will be paid at the rate of double time and a half.
27.5.4 By mutual consent the Company may allow an employee (other than a shift worker who regularly works Sundays and public holidays) time off in lieu, if practicable, instead of paying penalty rates for public holidays. If time off in lieu is not practicable, the hours must be added to the employee’s annual leave.
27.5.5 An employee who works on a public holiday and, except for meal breaks, continues such work must, on being relieved from duty be released until he or she has had ten consecutive hours off duty. The employee should be paid for ordinary working time occurring during the absence.
27.5.6 Employees on salaries in excess of the maximum of level 4, other than those who are rostered as seven day shift workers, who are required to work on public holidays are not entitled to the payments provided for in this clause.
27.6 Absence before or after a public holiday
If an employee is absent from work on the working day before and/or after a public holiday without reasonable excuse or without the consent of the Company, the employee is not entitled to be paid for the public holiday.
27.7 Rostered day off on a public holiday
If a shift worker requests and is allowed a rostered day off on a public holiday, the shift worker will not accrue an entitlement to a day in lieu for that public holiday.
