AT805114CRV - Federal Meat Industry (Retail and Wholesale) Award 2000 [Transitional]

32. PUBLIC HOLIDAYS

32.1 Full-time and part-time employees will be entitled to the following holidays without loss of pay for ordinary rostered hours:

HOLIDAY	QLD	NSW	VIC	SA	NT
New Year’s Day	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü
Australia Day	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü
Good Friday	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü
Easter Monday	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü
Anzac Day	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü
Commemoration Day	-	-	-	ü	-
Sovereign’s Birthday	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü
Labor Day	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü
Christmas Day	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü
Boxing Day	ü	ü	ü	-	ü
Melbourne Cup Day (or other agreed day)	-	-	ü	-	-
Union Picnic Day	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü
Exhibition or Show Day	ü	-	-	-	-

32.2 Substitution of public holidays

[32.1.1 inserted by PR907717 ppc 01Dec00]

32.1.1 Picnic day in each State shall be observed as follows:

32.1.1(a) New South Wales branch of the union (including ACT) - the first Monday in November in each year.

32.1.1(b) Newcastle and Northern branch of the union - the first Monday in November each year.

32.1.1(c) Victorian branch of the union - the third Wednesday in January of each year.

32.1.1(d) South Australian Branch of the union - the first Monday in March of each year.

32.1.1(e) Queensland Branch of the union (including the Northern Territory):

32.1.1(e)(i) employees employed in the cities of Brisbane and Redcliffe and the shires of Pine Rivers, Caboolture, Landsborough, Kilcoy, Esk, Laidley, Moreton (including the city of Ipswich), Boonah, City of Logan, Beaudesert, Albert (including the city of Gold Coast), Redlands, Maroochy and Noosa - the last Monday in October each year.

32.1.1(e)(ii) employees employed elsewhere than those areas in (i) - the first Monday in August of each year.

32.2.1 When Christmas Day or Boxing Day is a Saturday or Sunday, a holiday in lieu will be observed on 27 December and/or 28 December respectively, if it has been gazetted.

32.2.2 When New Year’s Day or Australia Day is a Saturday or Sunday, a holiday in lieu will be observed on the next Monday, if it has been gazetted.

32.2.3 Where in a State, Territory or locality, public holidays are declared or prescribed on days other than those set above, those days will constitute additional holidays for the purpose of this award.

32.2.4 An employer, with the agreement of their employees may substitute another day for any prescribed in this clause. For this purpose, the consent of the majority of affected employees will constitute agreement.

32.3 Payment for work on public holidays

31.3.1 Employees including casuals who work on:

31.3.1(a) Christmas Day or Anzac Day will be paid at double the ordinary hourly rate for all time worked;

31.3.1(b) Good Friday will be paid for all time worked at the rate of time and a half for the first four hours and double time thereafter based on the ordinary hourly rate; and

31.3.1(c) any other public holiday will be paid at time and a half for the first two hours and double time thereafter based on the ordinary hourly rate.

32.3.2 For full-time and part-time employees, the above payments will be in addition to the ordinary weekly or hourly rate of pay.

32.3.3 Notwithstanding any other provision of this clause, when an employee agrees to work on a public holiday which is part of their ordinary working week, they will be paid at the rate prescribed by this clause for the particular holiday or by agreement between the employee and employer they may be paid the ordinary daily rate and given a paid day off in lieu within 28 days of the holiday occurring unless other arrangements are agreed to.

32.3.4 Where an employee is absent from employment on the working day (or part thereof) before or after (or part thereof), a public holiday without reasonable excuse or without the consent of the employer, the employee will not be entitled to payment for such holiday, provided that an employee will not lose payment for more than one holiday where consecutive public holidays occur.

32.3.5 If any employee other than a casual employee is dismissed within fourteen days before any of the holidays and is re-engaged within fourteen days after any of the holidays, the employee will be deemed to have been dismissed for the purpose of evading payment for such holiday and any payment so evaded will be due and payable to the employee.

32.3.6 Employees who would not attend work on the public holiday because of their hours of work arrangement will not be required to take a day off on a day which is to be observed as a public holiday.