Common use of For Plumbing Industry Employees Clause in Contracts

For Plumbing Industry Employees. The average ordinary hours will be 38 per week worked in accord with the following provisions for a 4-week work cycle: (a) Ordinary working hours will be worked in a 20-day, 4 week cycle Monday to Friday inclusive, with 19 working days of 8 hours each, between the hours of 7:00am and 6:00pm, with 0.4 of one hour on each day worked accruing as an entitlement to take a day off as rostered in each cycle paid as though worked. (b) The Employer will nominate as the rostered day either: (i) the 3rd Friday in the cycle; or (ii) the 4th Monday in the cycle; or (iii) the 4th Friday in the cycle. (c) By agreement between an Employer and a majority of Employees, an alternate day in the 4-week cycle may be the rostered day, and where such agreement is reached all provisions of this Agreement will apply as if such day was the rostered day. Employees may nominate a representative, which may be the Union, to meet and confer with the Employer about alternative rostered days off. (d) Employees who are members of the Union may be represented by the Union in meeting and conferring with the Employer about an alternative rostered day off, and the Employer must give the Union a reasonable opportunity to meet and confer about the matter. Union involvement in this process does not mean that the consent of the Union is required prior to the introduction of an agreed alternative rostered day off. (e) The nominated day will be recorded in the time records of the Employer. An Employer will not change the rostered day without prior notice of 10 working days.

For Plumbing Industry Employees. The Except as provided elsewhere in this Agreement as it applies to Plumbing Industry Employees, the average ordinary hours will be 38 per week worked in accord with the following provisions for a 4-4 week work cycle:. (a) 38.2.1 Ordinary working hours will be worked in a 20-day, 20 day 4 week cycle Monday to Friday inclusive, with 19 working days of 8 hours each, between the hours of 7:00am and 6:00pm, with 0.4 of one hour on each day worked accruing as an entitlement to take a day off as rostered in each cycle paid as though worked. (b) 38.2.2 The Employer employer will nominate as the rostered day either: (ia) the 3rd Friday in the cycle; or (iib) the 4th Monday in the cycle; or (iiic) the 4th Friday in the cycle. (c) 38.2.3 By agreement between an Employer employer and a majority of Employeeshis/her employees, an alternate day in the 4-4 week cycle may be the rostered day, and where such agreement is reached all provisions of this Agreement will apply as if such day was the rostered day. Employees may nominate a representative, which may be the Unionunion, to meet and confer with the Employer about alternative rostered days off. (d) 38.2.4 Employees who are members of the Union may be represented by the Union in meeting and conferring with the Employer employer about an alternative rostered day off, and the Employer employer must give the Union a reasonable opportunity to meet and confer about the matter. Union involvement in this process does not mean that the consent of the Union is required prior to the introduction of an agreed alternative rostered day off. (e) 38.2.5 The nominated day will be recorded in the time records of the Employeremployer. An Employer employer will not change the rostered day without prior notice of 10 working days. 38.2.6 An employee may be required to work on a rostered day due to the absence, because of pressing domestic or personal necessity, of another employee who was rostered to work on that day. In such cases the employee will nominate another day to take off at mutual convenience. All provisions of this Agreement will apply as if such day was the rostered day. This provision operates only in respect of employers of 10 plumbing employees or less. 38.2.7 Where a rostered day falls on a public holiday as prescribed in clause 53 – Public Holidays of this Agreement, the next working day will be taken in lieu unless an alternate day in that 4 week cycle or the next is agreed in writing between the employer and the employee. 38.2.8 Each day of paid leave taken and any public holiday occurring during any cycle of 4 weeks will be regarded as a day worked for accrual purposes. 38.2.9 An employee who has not worked, or is not regarded by reason of clause 38.2.10 An accrued rostered day will be taken as a paid day off provided that the day may be worked where that is required by the employer and such work is necessary to allow other employees to be employed productively or to undertake out of hours maintenance or because of unforseen delays to a particular project or section of it or for other reasons arising from unforseen or emergency circumstances on a project. In such cases, in addition to accrued entitlements, the employee will be paid penalty rates as prescribed in clause 42 of this Agreement as if the work were done on a Saturday.