AT830035 - Shop Distributive And Allied Employees Association - Domino’s Pizza Australia Consent Award 2003 [Transitional]

14. CASUAL EMPLOYEES

14.1 Casual employees shall mean employees engaged on an hourly contract of service and who do not have an entitlement to reasonably predictable hours of work.

14.2 Casual employees shall not be engaged for less than two nor more than ten consecutive hours per time and not more than five starts per week.

14.3 Casual employees shall be paid at the ordinary rate of pay of 1/38th of the full-time weekly rate of pay for the appropriate classification plus a loading of 11-1/2%.

14.4 The provisions of Part 6 - Leave of absence, shall not apply to a casual employee.

[14.5 inserted by PR969273 ppc 09Dec05]

14.5 Caring responsibilities

14.5.1 Subject to the evidentiary and notice requirements in clauses 32.4, 32.5, 32.8.1, and 32.8.2(d), casual employees are entitled to not be available to attend work, or to leave work:

• if they need to care for members of their immediate family or household who are sick and require care and support, or who require care due to an unexpected emergency, or the birth of a child; or
• upon the death in Australia of an immediate family or household member.

14.5.2 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.

14.5.3 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.