Button Makers (State) Award

 

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMISSION OF NEW SOUTH WALES

 

Correction to Serial C5491 published 27 July 2007

 

(363 I.G. 61)

 

(No. IRC 4201 of 2005)

 

CORRECTION

 

1.          Delete instruction 1 and substitute the following:

 

1.          Insert into clause 32, Bereavement Leave, of the award published 21 February 2003 (338 I.G. 393), the following new item 32.6:

 

32.6      Bereavement entitlements for casual employees

 

32.6.1  Subject to the evidentiary and notice requirements in 32.2 casual employees are entitled to not be available to attend work, or to leave work upon the death in Australia of a person prescribed in subclause 31.1.3(b) of clause 31, Personal/Carer's Leave.

 

32.6.2  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.

 

32.6.3  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 engage a casual employee are otherwise not affected.

 

 

 

G. M. GRIMSON  Industrial Registrar.

 

 

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