Grocery Products Manufacturing (State) Award

 

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMISSION OF NEW SOUTH WALES

 

Application by National Union of Workers, New South Wales Branch, Industrial Organisation of Employees.

 

(No. IRC 758 of 2006)

 

 

VARIATION

 

1.          Delete subclause (i) of clause 13 Sundays and Holidays, of the award published 1 June 2001 (325 I.G. 38) and insert in lieu thereof the following:

 

(i)

 

(a)        The days upon which New Year's Day, Australia Day, Good Friday, Easter Saturday, Easter Monday, Anzac Day, Queen's Birthday, Labour Day, Christmas Day and Boxing Day are observed and an additional holiday being the last Monday in October each year, together with any other days which shall be proclaimed by the Government as public holidays shall be recognised as holidays and no deduction shall be made from the wages of permanent employees for such holidays if not worked,

 

(b)        In localities where no Labour Day is observed a day in lieu thereof shall be granted to employees and such day shall be arranged mutually between the employer and the union,

 

(c)        An employer and an employee, or an employer and the majority of employees in an establishment, may agree to observe an alternative day as a holiday in lieu of the last Monday in October.

 

(d)        An employee required to work on any of the holidays specified in paragraph (a), of this sub-clause, shall be paid at the rate of double time and a half.

 

(e)        An employee required to work on a Sunday shall be paid at the rate of double time.

 

2.          This variation shall take effect from 6 March 2006.

 

 

 

M. J. WALTON  J, Vice-President.

 

 

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