Canterbury DHB. The provisions of Clause 19 of the Canterbury Health Limited Laboratory Employees’ Collective Employment Contract which expired on 13 April 1995 shall apply in conjunction with Canterbury District Health Board’s policy on criteria for granting of gratuities for the following employees: • Xxxxx Xxxxx Section Head • Xxxxxxx Xxxxx Staff Technologist • Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx Staff Technologist • Xxxxx Xxxxxxx Laboratory Technologist • Xxxxxxxxx XxXxxxxxx Staff Medical Laboratory Technologist • Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx Laboratory Technologist • Xxxxx Xxxxxxx Staff Technologist 6.1 The employer may at pay a retiring gratuity to staff retiring from the DHB who have had no less than 10 years' service with the DHB, with the DHB and one or more of the following services: the Public Service or any university in New Zealand. Provided that for employees engaged after 1 January 1993, only service with Hospital / Area Health Boards / Crown Health Enterprises shall be recognised. 6.2 For the purposes of establishing eligibility for a gratuity, total service may be aggregated, whether this be part-time or whole-time, or a combination of both at different periods. Part-time service is not to be converted to its whole-time equivalent for the purpose of establishing eligibility 6.3 Where part-time service is involved the gratuity should be calculated to reflect this. The number of hours per week employed during the years of service is calculated as a percentage of the number of hours represented by a full week and this percentage is applied to the rate of pay established for gratuity purposes. 6.4 Gratuities may be paid to the spouse or if no surviving spouse, the dependent child(xxx) or the estate of employees who died before retirement or who died after retirement but before receiving a gratuity. Spouse is defined as a person with whom a marriage agreement has been made or who is in a de facto relationship. 6.5 The calculation of a gratuity entitlement shall be in accordance with the scale detailed below, provided that the amount of any gratuity previously received in respect of service taken into account in the calculation shall be deducted. 6.6 For the purposes of calculating the amount of gratuity, which a DHB may pay, the rate of pay on retirement shall be the basic rates of salary or wages. 6.7 An employee who is granted leave without pay and who remains in the service of the employer, will, on retirement, have such leave aggregated with other service for gratuity purposes.
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Samples: Labor Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement, Multi Employer Collective Agreement
