Tennis Strings and Sutures
Industry (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)
Before The Honourable
Justice Walton, Vice-President
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21 March 2006
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The Honourable Justice
Boland
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Commissioner Tabbaa
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VARIATION
1. Delete Clause
20 Holidays, of the said award published 3 August 2001 (326 I.G. 684), and
insert in lieu thereof the following:
20. Holidays
(a) The following
days or day upon which they are observed shall be holidays: New Year’s Day,
Australia Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Anzac Day, Queen’s Birthday, Eight
Hour Day, Christmas Day, Boxing Day and all other days proclaimed as public
holidays for the State.
(b) In addition to
the holidays specified in subclause (a) of this clause one additional holiday
shall apply in each calendar year to an employee on weekly hire. Such holiday shall be on the day prescribed
in subclause 7.5.1(b)(ii) of clause 7.5, of Public Holidays of the Metal,
Engineering and Associated Industries Award 1998 (Federal), as an additional
holiday in New South Wales, provided that, in 1976 only, the additional holiday
shall be observed on Monday, 6 September, provided further that where any other
working day is observed as an additional day by the general body of employees
in any establishment then such day shall be substituted for the additional
holiday hereinbefore prescribed. By
agreement between any employer and the majority of his employees another day
may be substituted for the additional holiday prescribed by this subclause in
such employer’s undertaking.
(c) All award
holidays falling on a usual working day shall be counted as time worked and
paid for as such.
(d) An employee
who without reasonable cause absents himself without leave on the working day
immediately preceding or the working day immediately following an award holiday
shall not be entitled to payment for such holiday.
(e) Work done on
an award holiday or Easter Saturday shall be paid for at the rate of double
time and one-half with a minimum payment of four hours.
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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Printed by
the authority of the Industrial Registrar.