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POST LOGISTICS THIRD PARTY WAREHOUSING/FULFILMENT BUSINESS AWARD 2001
PART 7 - TYPES OF LEAVE AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS
23.1 Entitlement 23.1.1 An employee will receive 152 hours annual leave after every twelve months of service from the employee's commencement date, which will be credited on the anniversary of that commencement date on the following and subsequent years, unless otherwise adjusted. Annual leave will accrue on a pro rata basis. 23.1.2 An employee can be required to take annual leave in consecutive days for operational or audit reasons. 23.1.3 Ordinarily, leave is to be taken within 12 months of accrual. Annual leave may accrue to a maximum of two years entitlement. 23.2 Timing of annual leave
23.3 Annual leave exclusive of public holidays
23.4 Payment on termination
24 ANNUAL LEAVE SEVEN DAY SHIFT WORKERS
24.1 Additional annual leave 24.1.1 In addition to the period of annual leave prescribed in clause 23 - Annual leave, seven day shift workers, that is, shift workers who are rostered and work regularly on Sundays and holidays, are allowed an additional 38 hours of annual leave. 24.1.2 Where a seven-day shift worker works an overtime shift on a Sunday, that will constitute Sunday work for the purposes of this clause, providing the overtime shift is of a duration that is not less than four hours. 24.1.3 Where a rostered overtime shift commences on a Saturday and extends into Sunday or commences on a Sunday and extends into Monday, it is deemed to be a Sunday overtime shift for the purposes of clause 24. 24.2 Pro rata entitlement
25.1 Amount
25.1.1 171/2% of the employee's salary as at the accrual date of the leave, subject to a maximum payment of the equivalent of the Australian Statistician's average weekly total earnings of all employees (males) August Preliminary for the year preceding the year in which the date of leave credit occurs; or 25.1.2 any additional payments for shift, Saturday or Sunday work, not in excess of prescribed weekly hours which the employee would have performed had annual leave not been taken. 25.2 Payment on termination
27.1 Designated holidays 27.1.1 The following days will be observed as public holidays: 27.1.1(a) New Year's Day, Good Friday, Easter Saturday, Easter Monday, Christmas Day and Boxing Day; and 27.1.1(b) the following days, as prescribed in the relevant States, Territories and localities: 27.1.1(c) in addition to the holidays prescribed in clause 27.1.1(a) and clause 27.1.1(b), the following days will be observed as holidays: 27.1.2 New South Wales: one day, on a day agreed between the parties or in the event that the parties cannot agree, the day will be determined by the Commission after giving the parties an opportunity to be heard; 27.1.3 Victoria: Melbourne Cup Day or local equivalent; 27.1.4 Queensland: Royal National Show or the day gazetted for the local show in the appropriate area; 27.1.5 South Australia: Adelaide Cup Day; 27.1.6 Western Australia: Foundation Day; 27.1.7 Tasmania: Royal Hobart Regatta (Southern Tasmania) or Recreation Day (Northern Tasmania); 27.1.8 Northern Territory: Picnic Day; 27.1.9 ACT: Canberra Day. 27.2 Substitute holidays 27.2.1 Christmas Day
27.2.2 Boxing Day
27.2.3 New Year's Day or Australia Day
27.3 Payment for work on substituted day 27.3.1 Where 25 December falls on a Saturday or Sunday and another day is provided as a substitute holiday under the provisions of clause 27.2.1 or clause 27.2.2 above, an employee who works on both 25 December and the substitute day(s) will only be paid at the holiday rate for work on 25 December. 27.3.2 The payment for work on the substitute day will be in accordance with clause 18 - Hours of work, clause 19 - Shift work or clause 22 - Overtime. 27.4 Local holidays 27.4.1 Local substitution holiday
27.4.2 Additional local holidays
27.5 Substitution of public holidays by agreement
27.6 Public holiday duty 27.6.1 Where the ordinary hours of a permanent or fixed term employee fall on a public holiday and the employee does not perform work, the employee will not lose pay for the day. 27.6.2 Where the employee works on the public holiday: 27.6.2(a) he or she will be paid the public holiday penalty of 150% in addition to the employee's ordinary rate of pay; and 27.6.2(b) the minimum extra payment payable for ordinary work on a public holiday for each separate attendance will be for 4 hours.
28.1 Eligibility
28.1.1 due to personal illness or injury (Sick leave); or 28.1.2 for the purpose of caring for an immediate family (as defined in clause 28.5.2) or a household member who is sick and requiring the care and support of the employee (Carer's leave). 28.2 Entitlement 28.2.1 Personal leave of 7 hours 36 minutes will be available on completion of every 40 calendar days subject to a maximum of 60 hours 48 minutes in the first twelve months of continuous employment. 28.2.2 A further 76 hours will be available at the end of the second and subsequent years of continuous employment. 28.3 Accrual
28.4 Leave for personal injury or illness 28.4.1 Eligibility
28.4.1(a) an application for sick leave must be submitted in the prescribed manner; 28.4.1(b) a certificate from a duly qualified medical practitioner or other evidence approved by the employer must support an application for sick leave; 28.4.1(c) the employee's manager or another nominated employee is informed, prior to the employee's scheduled starting time, if practicable, of the employee's inability to attend for work; and 28.4.1(d) sick leave credits, determined in accordance with this clause, are available. 28.4.2 Sick leave without certificate 28.4.2(a) Despite clause 28.4.1(b) and subject to the availability of credits, the employer may grant sick leave without production of a medical certificate for up to 15 hours 12 minutes in any sick leave year. 28.4.2(b) Despite the provisions of this clause, a medical certificate must be provided for any sick leave absence that occurs immediately before or following a public holiday or Time off in accordance with clause 20. 28.4.2(c) Except as provided in clause 28.4.2(a) above, where sick leave is granted without production of a medical certificate, such leave is without pay. 28.4.3 Illness on public holiday
28.4.4 Illness during annual leave
28.4.4(a) the employee produces a medical certificate covering the period in question; 28.4.4(b) the medical certificate indicates the employee was unfit for work; 28.4.4(c) sick leave for not less than 7 hours 36 minutes was needed; 28.4.4(d) sick leave credits are available; and 28.4.4(e) the medical evidence is provided at the time of illness, or, if that is not possible, as soon as practicable thereafter. 28.4.5 Failure to produce satisfactory evidence
28.4.6 Requirement to provide medical report or attend a medical examination
28.4.6(a) may be a danger to him or herself, other employees or members of the public due to the employee's state of health; or 28.4.6(b) has been absent through illness for a continuous period exceeding 13 weeks. 28.4.7 Timing of medical report
28.4.8 Direction to take sick leave
28.5 Carer's leave 28.5.1 Eligibility
28.5.2 Definition of immediate family
28.5.3 Entitlement
28.5.4 Leave credit
28.5.5 Unpaid leave
28.5.6 Prior notice
28.6 Bereavement leave
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