51. Holidays and Christmas/New Year Closedown Arrangements

51.1 Staff members will be entitled to 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, and such other day(s) as the Vice-Chancellor may declare.

51.2 Labour Day, Queen's Birthday, and Melbourne Cup Day are normal working days for Trades and Services Staff.

In compensation for working on those days, the University will pay Trades and Services 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). A Trades and Services Staff member who leaves the employ of the University prior to the commencement of the closedown period will receive payment in lieu of these holidays, at the rate of one day's pay per each of those worked.

51.3 The shortfall of such days available between Christmas Day and New Year's Day will be granted by the University prior to the next closedown period.

51.4 Where 26 January falls on a Saturday or Sunday and/or 25 April falls on a Saturday or Sunday or on Good Friday, Easter Saturday, Easter Monday or Easter Tuesday, and the University's academic and professional staff are granted substitute days off 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.

51.5 Where a holiday recognised by the University occurs on a rostered day off of a 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 taken at a time mutually convenient to the staff member and the University.

51.6 Unless required to work by the University, staff will be absent from duty for the duration of the Christmas/New Year closedown period. Trades and services staff may be 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.

51.7 Where a staff member has accrued insufficient paid time off for working Labour Day, Queen's Birthday, and/or Melbourne Cup Day to cover his/her absence from duty during the four days of the closedown period declared by the Vice-Chancellor in addition to Christmas Day, Boxing Day, and New Year's Day, the staff member will be debited annual leave to cover the shortfall unless otherwise agreed between the staff member and the University. In the event that the staff member has insufficient annual leave to cover the shortfall and annual leave in advance is not granted under Schedule 6, the staff member will be granted leave without pay to cover the remainder of the shortfall.

51.8 Where the paid time off accrued by the staff member for working Labour Day, Queen's Birthday, and/or Melbourne Cup Day more than covers his/her absence from duty during the four days of the closedown period declared by the Vice-Chancellor in addition to Christmas Day, Boxing Day, and New Year's Day, the balance of the staff member's accrued time off remaining after the end of the closedown period will be taken before the commencement of the next closedown period at a time agreed between the staff member and his/her supervisor. Any balance of accrued time off remaining to the staff member either at the commencement of the next closedown period or at the termination of his/her employment, whichever is the earlier, will be foregone and the University will have no liability to make any payment in lieu.