Common use of Leave Arrangements Clause in Contracts

Leave Arrangements. 35.1 Employees maintain coverage for long service leave, compensation leave and maternity leave under the relevant Acts. 35.2 In keeping with the principles of achieving cost-effective personnel services and good management of employees‘ entitlements, Section Heads, in consultation with the employee(s) concerned, should encourage the use of flextime or TOIL for absences of less than one day. 35.3 Grants of annual leave, personal/▇▇▇▇▇'s leave and miscellaneous leave are based on ordinary hours specified in a part-time agreement, rostered ordinary hours or ordinary hours according to the employee‘s status. 35.4 Annual and other leave will be debited at the applicable rate, including for rostered employees, whose leave will be debited at the rate applicable to the particular rostered day had the employee worked that day. 35.5 Leave that an employee has accrued before the lodgement of this Agreement will be credited in line with the AWM's leave arrangements in existence at the time the leave entitlement was accrued. 35.6 Full time employees and employees whose ordinary rostered working hours are 73.5 per fortnight are entitled to 147 hours of paid annual leave per annum. 35.7 Rostered employees whose ordinary hours are 38 hours per week or 76 hours per fortnight are entitled to 152 hours of paid annual leave per annum. 35.8 Annual leave accrues daily and will be credited monthly. 35.9 Annual leave credits will not accrue during aggregated periods of leave not to count as service over 30 days in the accrual year or for any unauthorised absence. 35.10 Pro rata leave (this applies to those employees who have not completed a full calendar year or those employed on a part time basis) will be calculated according to the following formula: A = standard number of hours per week for period. B = number of calendar days to count as service in period. Where C = a basic annual leave credit of four weeks. D = number of calendar days in the year. 35.11 Employees will accrue an additional 0.5 day credit for each rostered Sunday worked, subject each year to a maximum of: (a) 38.00 hours for employees in Security; or (b) 36.45 hours for other employees with the above maximums being pro rated for part-time employees. 35.12 An employee whose employment is subject to a roster and who would normally be rostered on for duty when a shift penalty is payable, who is on annual leave, will be entitled to half the normal shift penalty payment. 35.13 Shift allowance is payable through periods of annual leave. Shift allowance is not payable during any period of leave other than annual leave.