Telstra Corporation General Conditions Award 2001
AP806392 - Telstra Corporation General Conditions Award 2001
23.1. Annual leave
23.1.1 A full-time or part-time employee is eligible for four weeks annual leave for every twelve months of continuous employment with such leave accruing progressively. A part-time employee will be eligible for pro rata leave determined by the ordinary hours he/she normally worked.
23.1.2 An employee working a seven day shift, whose ordinary hours of work regularly fall on a Sunday and Public Holidays, is eligible for an additional seven consecutive days annual leave including non-working days. Where work is rostered on less than ten Sundays in the year, the additional leave will accrue at the rate of half a day for each Sunday worked, up to a maximum of five days.
23.1.3 A rostered overtime shift of three hours or more, which starts or finishes on Sunday, will count in the calculation under 23.1.2
23.2 Taking leave
23.2.1 An employee may take annual leave, as it accrues, subject to the agreement of his/her manager.
23.2.2 The annual leave provided in 23.1.1 and 23.1.2 will normally be taken within twelve months of accrual, unless deferral is agreed with the manager.
23.3 Leave payment and loading
23.3.2 The pay for annual leave is the employee’s pay rate at the time he/she takes annual leave plus the greater of 17.5% of the pay rate for the period of the annual leave taken or any additional amount which he/she would have received for working ordinary hours on a shift or Saturday or Sunday had he/she not been on annual leave.
23.3.2 The payment of 17.5% is subject to a maximum payment of the equivalent of the Australian Bureau of Statistics Male Average Weekly Total Earnings figure for the preceding September quarter.
23.4 Public holidays or sick leave falling in annual leave
23.4.1 If a public holiday falls within an employee’s annual leave on a day which would have been an ordinary working day, extra time equivalent to the public holiday will be added to the employee’s annual leave.
23.4.2 If an employee takes paid sick leave of one day or more supported by a medical certificate during his/her annual leave, extra time equivalent to the sick leave will be added to the employee’s accrued annual leave.
