Bootmakers and Heel Bar Operatives, &c. (State) Award

 

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMISSION OF NEW SOUTH WALES

 

FULL BENCH

 

Application by Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees' Association, New South Wales, Industrial Organisation of Employees.

 

(No. IRC 1034 of 2006)

 

 

VARIATION

 

1.          Delete clause 19 Public Holidays, of the said award published 31 August 2001 (327 I.G. 428), and insert in lieu thereof the following:

 

19.  Public Holidays

 

(a)        All weekly employees shall be entitled to the holidays hereinafter mentioned or any day observed in lieu thereof without deduction of pay:

 

New Year's Day; Australia Day; Good Friday; Easter Saturday; Easter Monday; Labour Day; Anzac Day; Queen's Birthday; Christmas Day; Boxing Day.

 

Whenever Christmas Day and Boxing Day or New Year's Day falls on a Saturday or Sunday the working day or days immediately following shall be observed in lieu thereof.

 

(b)        In addition to the holidays prescribed in (a) above, weekly employees shall be entitled to an additional holiday without loss of pay which shall be the "August Bank Holiday".

 

Where an establishment remains open on the August Bank Holiday and an employee volunteers to work on that day, such employee shall be given either:  an additional day off within 28 days or a day added to Annual Leave, or an additional day's pay to be decided by mutual agreement between the employer and employee.

 

An employer and an employee, or an employer and the majority of employees in an establishment, may agree to observe an alternative day as a holiday in lieu of the August Bank Holiday.

 

(c)        An employee absent without leave on the day before or the day after any award holiday, shall be liable to forfeit wages for the day of absence as well as for the holiday, except where an employer is satisfied that the employee's absence was caused through illness, in which case wages shall not be forfeited for the holiday.  Provided that an employee absent on one day only, either before or after a group of holidays, shall forfeit wages only for one holiday as well as for the period of absence.

 

(d)        All work performed on the holidays named in subclause (a) of this clause shall be paid for at the rate of double time and a half.

 

(e)        In a workshop or factory when an employee's services are terminated by the employer other than for malingering, inefficiency, neglect of duty or misconduct, in a period not exceeding one week before the day the establishment closes down for the Christmas period, the employee shall receive payment for the three public holidays, namely Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year's Day, on the same basis as if he/she were still in the employ of the employer.

 

(f)         In a workshop or factory when an employee's services are terminated by the employer other than for malingering, inefficiency, neglect of duty or misconduct, in a period not exceeding one week before Good Friday, the employee shall receive payment for Good Friday, Easter Saturday and Easter Monday on the same basis as if he/she were still in the employ of the employer.

 

2.          This variation shall take effect from 21 March 2006.

 

 

 

M. J. WALTON  J, Vice-President.

R. P. BOLAND  J.

I. TABBAA, Commissioner.

 

 

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