Storemen and Packers Bond and Free Stores (State) Award

 

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMISSION OF NEW SOUTH WALES

 

Application by National Union of Workers, New South Wales Branch, Industrial Organisation of Employees.

 

(No. IRC 750 of 2006)

 

 

VARIATION

 

1.          Delete clause 10 Holidays, of the award published 9 February 2001 (322 I.G. 72) and insert in lieu thereof the following:

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10.  Holidays

 

(i)         The following days, or the days upon which they are observed shall be holidays. New Year's Day, Australia Day, Good Friday, Easter Saturday, Easter Monday, Anzac Day, Queen's Birthday, Labour Day, Christmas Day, Boxing Day and additional holiday for the purposes of this clause, which shall be held on the first working day after Boxing Day each year and any day which may hereafter be proclaimed a public holiday for the district in which the employee is employed.

 

In the case of weekly employees, the above days shall be paid even though not worked.

 

(ii)        An employer and an employee, or an employer and the majority of employees in an establishmen4 may agree to observe an alternative day as a holiday in lieu of the first working day after Boxing Day.

 

(iii)       In the case of an employee whose ordinary hours of work are arranged in accordance with paragraph (c) or (d) of subclause (ii) of clause 3, Hours, of this award, the week day to be taken off shall not coincide with any holiday fixed in accordance with subclause (i) of this clause; Provided that in the event that a holiday is prescribed after an employee has been given notice of his week day off in accordance with subclause (vi) of the said clause 3 and the holiday falls on the week day the employee is to take off, the employer shall allow the employee to take the day off on an alternative week day.

 

(iv)       Where an employee is absent from his or her employment on the working day before or the working day after a public holiday without reasonable excuse or without the consent of the employer, the employee shall not be entitled to payment for such holiday.  Reasonable excuse shall be satisfied by a certificate from a duly qualified medical practitioner or statutory declaration.

 

2.          This variation shall take effect from 13 March 2006.

 

 

 

M. J. WALTON  J, Vice-President.

 

 

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