Australian Music Examinations Board (New South Wales) Examiners, Assessors and Advisers Employed by the Office of the Board of Studies Award

 

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMISSION OF NEW SOUTH WALES

 

Correction to Serial C4715 published 30 June 2006

 

(359 I.G. 1197)

 

(No. IRC 306 of 2006)

 

CORRECTION

 

1.          Delete subclause 9.2 of clause 9, Family Leave Provisions, and insert in lieu thereof the following:

 

9.2        Personal Carers entitlement for Employees

 

9.2.1     Employees are entitled to not be available to attend work, or to leave work if they need to care for a family member who is sick and requires care and support, or who requires care due to an unexpected emergency, or the birth of a child. This entitlement is subject to evidentiary requirements set out below in (9.3), and the notice requirements set out in (9.4).

 

9.2.1.1              A family member for the purposes of above is:

 

a spouse or family member; or

 

a de facto spouse being a member of the opposite sex to the Employee who lives with the Employee as her husband or as his wife on a bona fide domestic basis although not legally married to that Employee; or

 

a child or an adult child (including an adopted child, a step child, a foster child or an ex-nuptial child), parent (including a foster parent or legal guardian), a grandparent, grandchild or sibling of the Employee or of the spouse or de facto spouse of the Employee; or

 

a same sex partner who lives with the Employee as the de facto partner of that Employee on a bona fide domestic basis; or a relative of the Employee who is a member of the same household, where for the purposes of this definition:

 

"relative" means a person related by blood, marriage, affinity or Aboriginal kinship structures;

 

"affinity" means a relationship that one spouse or partner has to the relatives of the other; and

 

"household" means a family group living in the same domestic dwelling

 

9.2.2     The General Manager and the Employee shall agree on the period which the Employee will be entitled to not be available to attend work. In the absence of agreement, the Employee is entitled to not be available to attend work for up to 48 hours (i.e. two days) per occasion.  The Employee is not entitled to any payment for the period of non-­attendance.

 

9.2.3     The General Manager must not fail to re-engage an Employee because the Employee accessed the entitlements provided for in this clause. The rights of an employer to engage or not to engage an Employee are otherwise not affected.

 

 

 

G. M. GRIMSON  Industrial Registrar.

 

 

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Printed by the authority of the Industrial Registrar.