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AUSTRALIA POST GENERAL CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT AWARD 1999


Part 1 - Application and operation of award
    1.	Award title
    2.	Arrangement
    3.	Definitions
    4.	Date the award starts
    5.	Parties bound and who the award applies to
    5.1 	Parties bound
    5.2 	Who the award applies to
    6.	Relationship with other awards and determinations
    6.1 	Relationship with other awards
    6.2 	Inconsistency with determinations
    7.	Anti-discrimination

Part 2 - Award flexibility
    8.	Workplace flexibility - certified agreement provision
    9.	Index of facilitative provisions
    9.1 	Agreement to vary operation of award provisions
    9.2 	Facilitation by individual agreement
    9.3 	Facilitation by majority agreement
    9.4 	Dispute over facilitation

Part 3 - Consultation and dispute resolution
    10.    	Notice boards
    11.    	Dispute resolution process

Part 4 - Employment relationship
    12.    	Categories of employees
    12.1	General
    12.2	Permanent employees
    12.3	Fixed term employees
    12.4	Casual employees
    13.    	Permanent / fixed term employees - conditions of service
    13.1	Full-time employment
    13.2	Part-time employment
    14.    	Casual employees - conditions of service
 
Part 5 - Salary rates and related matters
    15.    	Classifications
    15.1	Classifications
    15.2	Selection
    16.  	Payment of salaries
    16.1	Fortnightly pay
    16.2	Method of payment
    16.3	Death of employee
    17.    	National training wage
    18.    	Supported wage system
    18.1	Definitions
    18.2	Eligibility criteria
    18.3	Entitlement
    18.4	Assessment of capacity
    18.5	Lodgement of assessment instrument
    18.6	Review of assessment
    18.7    	Other terms and conditions of employment
    18.8	Workplace adjustment
    18.9	Trial period
    19.    	Allowances
    19.1	Dependant allowance
    19.2	Excess fares
    19.3	First aid allowance
    19.4	Headquarters relocation allowance
    19.5	Higher duties allowance
    19.6	Intermittent driving allowance
    19.7	Living away from home allowance
    19.8	Overtime meal allowance
    19.9	Private motor vehicle allowance
    19.10    	Study assistance
    19.11    	Temporary accommodation allowance
    19.12    	Tonnage allowance
    19.13    	Transfer costs
    19.14    	Travelling allowance
    20.    	Deductions from salaries of rent for residence
    20.1	Supervision of property

Part 6 - Hours of work, overtime, excess travelling time and shift work
    21.    	Hours of duty
    21.1	Specific provisions
    21.2	Hours of duty - facilitative provisions
    21.3	Part-time employees
    21.4	Make up time
    21.5	Meal break
    22.    	Overtime
    22.1	General conditions
    22.2	Overtime - time off instead of payment
    22.3	Minimum overtime payment
    22.4	Rest relief after overtime
    22.5	Emergency duty
    22.6	Restriction duty
    23.    	Excess travelling time
    23.1	Excess travel
    23.2	Minimum time
    23.3	Maximum time
    23.4	Rate
    23.5	Headstation
    23.6	Travelling time
    23.7	Employee required to work within a district
    23.8	Eligibility
    23.9	Meaning of a day
    24.    	Shift work
    24.1	Shift penalties
    24.2	Payments stand alone
    24.3	Payment during training courses
    24.4	Payment during annual leave
    24.5	Exchange of shift / substitute employee
    24.6	Stretch of shift
    24.7	Interval between shifts
    24.8	Duty on a public holiday

Part 7 - Types of leave and public holidays
    25. 	Annual leave
    25.1 	Entitlement
    25.2 	Conditions for leave
    25.3 	Advance payment
    25.4 	Payment instead of leave
    25.5 	Termination payment
    25.6 	Recovery of payments
    25.7 	Annual leave - seven day shift workers
    25.8 	Seven day shift workers - payment in lieu of additional annual leave
    25.9 	Annual leave loading
    26. 	Personal leave
    26.1 	Definitions
    26.2 	Amount of personal leave
    26.3 	Personal leave for personal injury or sickness (sick leave)
    26.4 	Personal leave to care for an immediate family or household member (carer's leave)
    26.5 	Employee must give notice
    26.6 	Evidence supporting claim
    26.7 	Unpaid personal leave
    26.8 	Sick leave without certificate
    26.9 	Sick leave debits
    26.10 	Illness during annual leave
    26.11 	Failure to produce satisfactory evidence
    26.12 	Employee to provide medical report
    26.13 	Maximum period
    26.14 	Sick leave without pay
    26.15 	Invalidity retirement date
    26.16 	Reappointment after retirement
    26.17 	War service sick leave
    26.18 	Recognition of prior public employment
    27. 	Bereavement leave
    27.1 	Paid leave entitlement
    27.2 	Unpaid bereavement leave
    27.3 	Immediate family or household
    28. 	Parental leave
    28.1 	Definitions
    28.2 	Basic entitlement
    28.3 	Maternity leave
    28.4 	Paternity leave
    28.5 	Adoption leave
    28.6 	Variation of period of personal leave
    28.7 	Parental leave and other entitlements
    28.8 	Transfer to safe job
    28.9 	Returning to work after a period of parental leave
    28.10 	Replacement employees
    28.11 	Right to request
    28.12 	Communication during parental leave
    29. 	Leave to attend as witness in industrial proceedings
    30. 	Jury service
    30.1 	Leave granted
    30.2 	Jury fees
    31.    Public holidays
    31.1	Designated holidays
    31.2	Substitute holidays
    31.3	Local holidays
    31.4	Substitution of public holidays by agreement

    Schedule A  Allowances

Version

AW766597 PR969602 AUSTRALIAN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMISSION
Workplace Relations Act 1996 s.113 application to vary an award

Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia (C2005/6213)

AUSTRALIA POST GENERAL CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT AWARD 1999 (ODN C No. 25759 of 1989) [AW766597 PR905308]

Postal services
COMMISSIONER FOGGO MELBOURNE, 10 MARCH 2006
Family provision decision. B. This order shall come into force from the first pay period to commence on or after 15 February 2006 and shall remain in force for a period of six months.

BY THE COMMISSION: COMMISSIONER


AUSTRALIAN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMISSION
Workplace Relations Act 1996 s.113 application to vary

Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia (C No. 35830 of 1999)
Australian Postal Corporation (C No. 34538 of 1999) (C No. 35292 of 1999)

Review of awards pursuant to Item 51 of Part 2 of Schedule 5 of the Workplace Relations and Other Legislation Amendment Act 1996
(C No. 00448 of 1998)

AUSTRALIA POST GENERAL CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT (INTERIM) AWARD 1995
(ODN C No. 25759 of 1989) [Print M9496 [A1686]]
Various employees services
COMMISSIONER LARKIN SYDNEY, 15 NOVEMBER 1999
Award simplification.



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