AT801922 - Victorian Catholic Schools and Catholic Education Offices Award 1998 [Transitional]
54.1 Ordinary Full time Hours of Work
A full-time School Services Officer is one whose ordinary hours of work, exclusive of meal breaks, are 38 per week. Ordinary hours shall be worked in five days Monday to Friday inclusive between the hours of 7.00am and 6.00pm. By agreement between the employer and an employee the hours may be averaged over a four week period in accordance with clause 54.1.1.
54.1.1 Averaging of hours
An employer and employee may agree that the ordinary hours of work provided by the clause 54 will be worked as a 19 day month, in which case the following provisions shall apply:
54.1.1(a) Each employee of the school subject to this award shall work 152 hours over 19 days in each four week period with one rostered day off on full pay in each such period.
54.1.1(b) Each employee shall accrue 24 minutes for each 8 hour day worked by the employee to give the employee an entitlement to take a rostered day off.
54.1.1(c) Each day of paid leave taken by an employee (but not including long service leave or any period of stand down, and any public holiday occurring during any cycle of four weeks) shall be regarded as a day worked for the purpose of accruing an entitlement under paragraph (b) of this subclause.
54.1.1(d) Rostered days off shall not be regarded as part of the employee's annual leave for any purpose.
54.1.1(e) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this subclause, an employee shall not be entitled to more than 12 paid rostered days off in any 12 months of consecutive employment.
54.1.1(f) Any employee who is scheduled to take a rostered day off before having worked a complete four week cycle shall be paid a pro rata amount for the time that the employee has accrued in accordance with paragraph (b) this subclause.
54.1.1(g) Any employee whose employment is terminated in the course of a four week cycle shall be paid a pro rata amount for the time accrued by the employee in the cycle in accordance with the said paragraph (b).
54.1.1(h) Rostered days off shall be scheduled by mutual agreement between the employee and the school.
54.1.1(i) An employee shall be advised by the employer at least four weeks in advance of the day on which the employee is to be rostered off duty.
54.1.1(j) An employee may, with the agreement of the employer, substitute the day on which the employee is scheduled to be rostered off duty for another day.
54.1.1(k) Any employee required to work on their rostered day off shall be paid in accordance with the provisions of clause 56, Overtime, and shall also receive another rostered day off in lieu.
54.1.1(l) Employees are not eligible for sick leave in respect of absences on rostered days off.
54.1.2 Preservation of Existing Arrangements
Averaging of hours arrangements entered into prior to the existence of this part of the award can continue and do not require a new agreement from the employer. In respect of existing employees who do not receive a rostered day off in accordance with the above arrangements nothing in this clause shall oblige an employer to implement a 38 hour week with a rostered day off.
54.2 Part time hours
A part time School Services Officer is one whose ordinary hours of work are less than 38 hours per week in that school, not being a casual School Services Officer.
54.3 Notice of Hours
The employer shall advise employees of the ordinary starting and finishing times of work and the ordinary time of meal breaks which shall be displayed in a conspicuous place accessible to the employees. Such times shall not be changed without payment of overtime for work done outside these times unless seven days' notice of any change is given by the employer, provided that such seven days' notice shall not be required if any change of hours is by mutual agreement between the employer and the employee.
54.3.1 In determining whether changes to hours are necessary and in making such decisions employers are required to take into account the needs of the school and the family needs and/or responsibilities of employees.
54.3.2 Nothing in this clause prevents an agreement between an employer and an employee for the payment of hours additional to the usual hours at the ordinary time rate of pay where the total number of hours in that week is less than 38.
