AT832792 - Retail and Wholesale Industry - SDAEA Wholesale Grocers Award 2003 [Transitional]

7. CASUAL EMPLOYEES

[7 substituted by PR968998 ppc 05Dec05]

7.1 Casual employees, i.e. employees engaged for less than two full weeks shall be paid at the ordinary wages rate with an addition of 33-1/3%.

7.2 Casual employment and caring responsibilities

7.2.1 Subject to the relevant evidentiary and notice requirements in clauses 26.4.2 and 26.4.3, 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.

7.2.2 The employer and the employee shall agreement 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.

7.2.3 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.