Common use of Your entitlement Clause in Contracts

Your entitlement. You get 4 weeks of paid annual leave each year. Your leave accrues progressively throughout the year, is credited to you monthly and is cumulative. If you are a continuous shiftworker, you may get up to 1 additional week (7 consecutive days including non-working days) of paid annual leave each year. You will be entitled to the additional week after working 10 Sundays in any calendar year. If you work fewer than 10 Sundays, you will be given a pro rata entitlement of ½ day for each Sunday worked. If you work overtime on a Sunday, it will count towards your leave entitlement so long as your overtime period is at least as long as the normal rostered shift. You must agree with your manager when you will take annual leave. Your manager will act reasonably when trying to accommodate requests, having regard to Telstra’s business requirements. Telstra may direct you to take leave if it’s reasonable to do so. Examples of when Telstra might do this include:  if Telstra is shutting down all or part of the business for a period, such as over Christmas or New Year  if you have accrued more than 6 weeks of annual leave (7 weeks for continuous shift workers) – though Telstra won’t leave you with less than 4 weeks of accrued annual leave if Telstra does this (or 5 weeks if you are a continuous shift worker). If you are on annual leave and you need to take some other form of leave (for example, personal leave), If you have more than 5 weeks of annual leave accrued, you can choose to cash out up to 2 weeks of leave so long as you still have at least 4 weeks of accrued annual leave left. You and Telstra must agree this in writing. You will be paid the full amount that you would have been paid if you had taken that annual leave. You can find more details in the relevant Telstra policy. If you are a Workstream Employee you will receive a 17.5% leave loading each year, for the annual leave that you accrued in the previous calendar year. Where you are a shiftworker, you will receive the greater of the 17.5% loading or the additional amount that you would have received for working your ordinary hours on a Saturday or Sunday, had you not been on annual leave. This payment will be made (pro rata) on the first instance of annual leave during the subsequent calendar year that the annual leave was accrued. The 17.5% loading is subject to a maximum payment of the equivalent of the Australian Bureau of Statistics Male Average Weekly Total Earnings for the preceding September quarter. Payments under this clause will cease when employees are under a Fixed Remuneration model, which incorporates annual leave loading (see Appendix C). Accordingly, Telstra will pay any accrued entitlements to annual leave loading as at 30 June 2013 irrespective of the leave being taken. Once a year (usually in August/September), you can apply to buy extra leave. If your application to buy extra leave is approved, you salary sacrifice some of your pay in return for the extra leave. You cannot buy extra leave if you have an accrued annual leave balance of more than 5 weeks or an accrued long service leave balance of more than 3 months. You can find more details about buying extra leave in the relevant Telstra policy.

Your entitlement. You get 4 weeks of paid annual leave each year. Your leave accrues progressively throughout the year, is credited to you monthly and is cumulative. If you are a continuous shiftworker, you may get up to 1 additional week (7 consecutive days including non-working days) of paid annual leave each year. You will be entitled to the additional week after working 10 Sundays in any calendar year. If you work fewer than 10 Sundays, you will be given a pro rata entitlement of ½ day for each Sunday worked. If you work overtime on a Sunday, it will count towards your leave entitlement so long as your overtime period is at least as long as the normal rostered shift. You must agree with your manager when you will take annual leave. Your manager will act reasonably when trying to accommodate requests, having regard to Telstra’s business requirements. Telstra may direct you to take leave if it’s reasonable to do so. Examples of when Telstra might do this include:  • if Telstra is shutting down all or part of the business for a period, such as over Christmas or New Year  • if you have accrued more than 6 weeks of annual leave (7 weeks for continuous shift workers) – though Telstra won’t leave you with less than 4 weeks of accrued annual leave if Telstra does this (or 5 weeks if you are a continuous shift worker). If you are on annual leave and you need to take some other form of leave (for example, personal leave), If you have more than 5 weeks of annual leave accrued, you can choose to cash out up to 2 weeks of leave so long as you still have at least 4 weeks of accrued annual leave left. You and Telstra must agree this in writing. You will be paid the full amount that you would have been paid if you had taken that annual leave. You can find more details in the relevant Telstra policy. If you are a Workstream Employee you will receive a 17.5% leave loading each year, for the annual leave that you accrued in the previous calendar year. Where you are a shiftworker, you will receive the greater of the 17.5% loading or the additional amount that you would have received for working your ordinary hours on a Saturday or Sunday, had you not been on annual leave. This payment will be made (pro rata) on the first instance of annual leave during the subsequent calendar year that the annual leave was accrued. The 17.5% loading is subject to a maximum payment of the equivalent of the Australian Bureau of Statistics Male Average Weekly Total Earnings for the preceding September quarter. Payments under this clause will cease when employees are under a Fixed Remuneration model, which incorporates annual leave loading (see Appendix C). Accordingly, Telstra will pay any accrued entitlements to annual leave loading as at 30 June 2013 irrespective of the leave being taken. Once a year (usually in August/September), you can apply to buy extra leave. If your application to buy extra leave is approved, you salary sacrifice some of your pay in return for the extra leave. You cannot buy extra leave if you have an accrued annual leave balance of more than 5 weeks or an accrued long service leave balance of more than 3 months. You can find more details about buying extra leave in the relevant Telstra policy.