General Construction and
Maintenance, Civil and Mechanical Engineering, &c. (State) Award
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
COMMISSION OF NEW SOUTH WALES
Correction to Serial
C5528 published 27 July 2007
(363 I.G. 105)
(No. IRC 4201 of 2005)
CORRECTION
1. Delete
instruction 8, and substitute the following:
8. Insert
the following new item 19(7) into clause 19, Personal/Carer’s Leave, as
follows:
(7) Personal
Carers Entitlement for casual employees -
(1) Subject to the evidentiary and notice
requirements in 19(1)(b) and 19(1)(d) casual employees are entitled to not be
available to attend work, or to leave work if they need to care for a person
prescribed in subclause 19(1)(c)(ii) of this clause who are sick and require
care and support, or who require care due to an unexpected emergency, or the
birth of a child.
(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.
(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.
G.
M. GRIMSON Industrial
Registrar.
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Printed by
the authority of the Industrial Registrar.