AT765517 - Airline Operations - Flight Attendants’ Long Haul - Qantas Airways Limited

AT765517 - Airline Operations - Flight Attendants’ Long Haul - Qantas Airways Limited - Award 2000 [Transitional]

PART 7 - TYPES OF LEAVE

25. ANNUAL LEAVE

25.1 Entitlement

Unless otherwise provided in this clause, a flight attendant is entitled to 42 consecutive days paid leave (inclusive of Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays) after each 12 months continuous service (less the period of annual leave).

25.2 Taking leave

25.2.1 The leave prescribed in this clause must be given and taken on consecutive days or, if the Company and the flight attendant agree, in more than one period.

25.2.2 Annual leave will not be allowed to accumulate for more than two years.

25.2.3 A flight attendant's leave will be confirmed not later than eight weeks before the planned commencement date of such leave. Where a flight attendant transfers to another base station he or she may be allocated another leave period within a minimum period of four weeks notice where the availability of leave periods at his or her new base station does not allow him/her to retain his or her original leave allocation.

25.3 Pro rata leave on termination of employment

25.3.1 If, after one month's continuous service in any qualifying 12 month period, a flight attendant leaves his or her employment or his or her employment is terminated by the Company through no fault of the flight attendant the flight attendant must be paid pro rata for service in respect of which no annual leave has been granted.

25.3.2 A flight attendant who, on termination of his or her employment, is entitled to payment in lieu of accrued annual leave will be paid at the rate per duty hour credit prescribed for his or her years of service and category for the average of his or her accrued duty hour credits or minimum guaranteed hours, whichever is the greater, for his or her last six completed bid periods.

25.4 Payment of leave

A flight attendant on annual leave must be paid at the rate per duty hour credit prescribed for his or her years of service and category for the duty hour credits accrued for the period of his or her annual leave in accordance with 22.3.