Common use of Casual Appointment Clause in Contracts

Casual Appointment. (a) Casual appointments are normally offered where there is a need to engage additional staff where the work is irregular, to cover a short-term absence, to provide industry or professional experience or to provide postgraduate opportunities. Casual staff are engaged by the hour and paid an all-purpose hourly rate which includes a loading of 25 per cent, in lieu of benefits available to ongoing and fixed-term staff, and is derived from the fortnightly salary applicable to the appropriate classification. (b) The University does not intend to disproportionately increase the percentage of staff employed on a casual basis during the life of the Agreement. (c) The fundamental feature in the offer and acceptance of a casual appointment is that there is no expectation by the staff member or the University that there will be any employment beyond the appointment offered. A casual appointment may be terminated by either the University or the staff member on one hour’s notice and the requirements in the provisions in this Agreement for managing unsatisfactory performance, misconduct and serious misconduct and ill health do not apply. (d) A casual staff member will not normally be employed to work more than the corresponding full-time hours prescribed for the classification. Casual staff are not entitled to the benefit of any paid leave entitlement in Part 6 of this Agreement except long service. A casual staff member is entitled to unpaid leave for sick, carers’, parental, bereavement/compassionate, jury service, and state emergency call out purposes.

Casual Appointment. (a) Casual appointments are normally offered where there is a need to engage additional staff where the work is irregular, to cover a short-term absence, to provide industry or professional experience or to provide postgraduate opportunities. Casual staff are engaged by the hour and paid an all-purpose hourly rate which includes a loading of 25 per cent, in lieu of benefits available to ongoing and fixed-term staff, and is derived from the fortnightly salary applicable to the appropriate classification. (b) The University does not intend to disproportionately increase the percentage of staff employed on a casual basis during the life of the Agreement. (c) The fundamental feature in the offer and acceptance of a casual appointment is that there is no expectation by the staff member or the University that there will be any employment beyond the appointment offered. A casual appointment may be terminated by either the University or the staff member on one hour’s notice and the requirements in the provisions in this Agreement for managing unsatisfactory performance, misconduct and serious misconduct and ill health do not apply. (d) A casual staff member will not normally be employed to work more than the corresponding full-time hours prescribed for the classification. Casual staff are not entitled to the benefit of any paid leave entitlement in Part 6 of this Agreement except long serviceservice leave and family and domestic violence leave in accordance with clause 6.11.2(c). A casual staff member is entitled to unpaid leave for the purpose of sick, carers’, parental, bereavement/compassionate, jury service, and state emergency call out purposes. For clarity a casual staff member does not receive payment for public holidays as outlined in clause 6.6.