Conditions applying in common to all trades and services staff

This Part shall apply in common to all trades and services staff except where otherwise expressly provided.

Section 5 - Leave of Absence and Holidays

47. Holidays and Christmas/New Year Closedown Arrangements

47.1 Staff members will be entitled to observe the following days, or days proclaimed as holidays in substitution for those days, without loss of pay:

• New Year's Day
• Australia Day
• Anzac Day
• Good Friday
• Easter Saturday
• Easter Monday
• Easter Tuesday
• Christmas Day
• Boxing Day
• such other day(s) as the Vice-Chancellor s hall declare.

Labour Day, Queen's Birthday, and Melbourne Cup Day are all normal working days and are not holidays for staff covered by this Agreement (including casual staff) and all references to Melbourne Show Day as a holiday in any award or agreement applying to University staff are rendered nugatory and void.

Provided that when:

• Christmas Day is a Saturday or a Sunday, a holiday in lieu thereof shall be observed on 27 December;
• Boxing Day is a Saturday or a Sunday, a holiday in lieu thereof shall be observed on 28 December; and
• New Year's Day is a Saturday or Sunday, a holiday in lieu shall be observed on the next Monday.

47.2 Where 26 January and/or 25 April falls on a Saturday or Sunday and the University's academic and general staff are granted substitute days off for the Australia Day and/or Anzac Day holidays by the University, trades and services staff shall be entitled to the same substitute days off for the Australia Day and Anzac Day holidays and a penalty rate of double time and a half of ordinary time shall be paid for any and all work performed on those substitute days off. Provided that if no substitution is made then the Australia Day and Anzac Day holidays will be observed on 26 January and 25 April respectively and holiday penalty r ates shall apply to all time worked on those dates.

47.3 Where Anzac Day falls on Good Friday, Easter Saturday, Easter Monday or Easter Tuesday, a holiday will be recognised for Anzac Day only and no substitution will be made for the Good Friday, Easter S aturday, Easter Monday or Easter Tuesday. Provided that if the University's academic and general staff are granted a substitute day off for the Good Friday, Easter Saturday, Easter Monday or Easter Tuesday, trades and services staff shall be entitled to t he same substitute day off and a penalty rate of double time and a half of ordinary time shall be paid for any and all work performed on that substitute day off.

47.4 Where a holiday recognised by the University occurs on a rostered day off of a rostered staff member and such a staff member does not work on that rostered day off, the staff member will be entitled to an additional day's leave (or, at the option of the University, payment at the rate for the day) in lieu of such holiday, such leave to be ta ken at a time mutually convenient to the staff member and the University.

47.5 Holiday penalty payments of double time and a half of ordinary time will not apply for time worked on Labour Day, Queen's Birthday, or Melbourne Cup Day which are all normal wo rking days. In exchange, the University will pay staff (other than casual staff) for all work performed on any of those days at the rate of time and a half of ordinary time and grant them one and one-third non-cumulative University holidays to be taken on the days falling between Christmas Day and New Year's Day (excluding any Saturday, Sunday or public holiday) for each of those days worked. The shortfall of such days available between Christmas Day and New Year's Day will be granted by the University pr ior to the next closedown period.

Provided that when a staff member (other than a casual staff member) leaves the employ of the University at any campus prior to the commencement of the closedown period, then he/she will receive payment in lieu of workin g Labour Day, Queen's Birthday, and/or Melbourne Cup Day at the rate of one day's pay for each of those days worked.

For the purposes of this clause, “days worked” shall include absences on leave counting as service.

47.6 Trades and services staff may b e required to take an accrued RDO or a day's annual leave or leave without pay on a day falling between Christmas Day and New Year's Day (other than any Saturday, Sunday, public holiday, or non-cumulative University holiday) or on a day immediately before or immediately after the annual Christmas/New Year closedown period to ensure that they resume duty on the same date as their supervisors, where those supervisors are not trades and services staff.

47.7 Applications for annual leave on Queen's Birthday by any staff member (excluding casual staff) will ordinarily be approved.