Direction to take annual leave. An employee may be directed to take annual leave for up to 25% of their credit if they have an annual leave credit of more than:
(a) for AGS employees – 10 weeks;
(b) for other employees (excluding shiftworkers) – 12 weeks; and
(c) for shiftworkers – 15 weeks.
Direction to take annual leave. (a) The University may direct an employee to take annual leave where an employee has an accrued entitlement to annual leave of 6 weeks or more to reduce their entitlement to not less than 3 weeks at the conclusion of the leave. In special circumstances (e.g. planning overseas travel), an employee may, with the prior approval of their senior manager, accrue annual leave to a maximum of 8 weeks, provided that such leave must be reduced to not more than 2 weeks and taken within six (6) months.
(b) Where the University directs an employee to take annual leave, it will:
(i) discuss the timing of the leave with the employee and take into consideration any wishes of the employee;
(ii) allow the employee an opportunity to submit an application to take an appropriate amount of leave at a mutually agreed time;
(iii) allow the employee to take leave in one or more blocks if the employee wishes to do so; and
(iv) provide the employee with reasonable notice of the leave to be taken.
(c) Nothing in this clause limits the University's capacity to direct an employee to take no more than 3 days of annual leave when the University is shut down around the Christmas/New Year period as part of the standard leave arrangements referred to in subclauses 37.1 and 37.2 of this clause. Provided that an employee with an annual leave balance of less than 6 weeks at the date of the shut down may elect to use available flex time or time off in lieu of overtime, leave without pay, or a combination thereof, instead of annual leave, or be granted annual leave in advance.
(d) The provisions of subclause 37.2 are reasonable having regard to the nature of the University's operations and the flexible work arrangements for employees covered by this Agreement.
Direction to take annual leave. An Employee must take annual leave if directed to do so by the Employer:
(a) if the Employer shuts down the part of its business in which the Employee works for any reason. If the Employee does not have credited annual leave to cover the shut down period the Employee may be required to take unpaid leave; and/or
(b) where the Employee has an accrued annual leave entitlement of 6 weeks’ or more and the Employer has provided the Employee with 4 weeks’ notice, the Employer may direct the Employee to take an amount of annual leave to reduce the Employee’s accrued annual leave balance to 4 weeks; and/or
(c) in accordance with the Act.
Direction to take annual leave. Where a staff member has a total of 40 days or more annual leave accrual, the University may direct a staff member to take annual leave accumulated from previous years.
Direction to take annual leave. An Employee has excessive leave accrual if the Employee has accrued more than eight (8) weeks of annual leave, the Company may direct the Employee, in accordance with the Award, on eight (8) weeks’ notice, to take a period of annual leave, up to a duration required to bring their accrued annual leave balance to six (6) weeks.
Direction to take annual leave. For the purpose of this clause Excess Annual Leave means an accrued annual leave entitlement that equals or exceeds 30 days’ leave or the equivalent hours (or the pro rata equivalent for Part-time Employees).
Direction to take annual leave. Where an Employee has accrued more than eight weeks of annual leave, an Employer may direct the Employee to take a period or periods of accrued annual leave, subject to the following conditions:
(a) Before any direction is given, the Employer must attempt to genuinely reach agreement with the Employee about steps that will be taken to reduce the annual leave balance, including the timing of when a period of leave will be taken;
(b) The Employer must provide the Employee with at least eight weeks’ notice of the date the leave is to commence;
(c) The direction must not:
(i) result in the Employee’s remaining accrued entitlement to annual leave at any time being less than six weeks;
(ii) require the Employee to take any period of leave of less than one week;
(iii) require the Employee to take any period of leave commencing more than 12 months after the day the direction is given to the employee; Support Staff (Daramalan College, Marist College Canberra, and St Edmund’s College, Canberra) Multi-Enterprise Agreement 2023
(iv) be inconsistent with any leave arrangement agreed to between the Employer and Employee.
(d) Xxxxx to directing the Employee to take the period of annual leave, the Employer must take into consideration any relevant personal circumstances raised by the Employee at the time. The Employee must comply with any direction given in accordance with this subclause. Note: the NES states that the Employer must not unreasonably refuse to agree to a request by the Employee to take a period of accrued annual leave. Support Staff (Daramalan College, Marist College Canberra, and St Edmund’s College, Canberra) Multi-Enterprise Agreement 2023
Direction to take annual leave. Notwithstanding the above, the Employer may direct an Employee to take:
(i) Up to a quarter of their accrued annual leave entitlement where the employee has accrued more than 8 weeks annual leave.
(ii) Leave where it shuts down all or part of the business. If an Employee does not have sufficient accrued leave, they may be required to take leave without pay;
Direction to take annual leave. (a) ALDI may direct you to take annual leave if you have accrued more than eight (8) weeks’ annual leave, and you and ALDI are unable to reach agreement on the taking of the leave.
(b) ALDI must give you at least four (4) weeks’ notice prior to the date you are required to commence the leave, and after taking the annual leave, you must retain a balance of at least six (6) weeks’ annual leave.
(c) Under certain circumstances, you may request to be allowed to accrue more than eight
Direction to take annual leave. (a) An Employee can accrue a maximum Annual Leave balance of 6 weeks (or 7.5 weeks for Continuous Shift Workers). Where an Employee has reached this maximum accrual, the Employer and Employee will attempt to reach and an agreement on how the leave will be reduced. If no agreement is reached the employer can direct them to take Annual Leave, by the giving of eight weeks’ notice. If the need arises to manage leave balances accrued at less than the above, this will be managed through consultation with individual Employees.
(b) An Employee who already has leave booked within a six-month period will not be directed to take Annual Leave if this booked leave will reduce their accrual to less than 6 or 7.5 weeks respectively (e.g. an Employee who has 7 weeks of accrued leave in March, but has three weeks leave booked in May, will not be directed to take Annual Leave before May).
(c) The Employer and Employee can agree to increase the maximum Annual Leave balance in in extenuating circumstances (e.g. a planned extended overseas holiday).
