Common use of Notice of termination by Linfox Clause in Contracts

Notice of termination by Linfox. (a) In order to terminate the employment of an employee Linfox must give to the employee the period of notice specified in the table below: 1 year or less 1 week Over 1 year and up to the completion of 3 years 2 weeks Over 3 years and up to the completion of 5 years 3 weeks Over 5 years of completed service 4 weeks (b) In addition to the notice in clause 3.3.1, employees over 45 years of age at the time of the giving of the notice with not less than two years’ continuous service, are entitled to an additional week’s notice. (c) Linfox may, in lieu of giving an employee part or all of the notice in clause 3.3.1 and 3.3.2, pay to the employee an amount in lieu of the period of notice not given. (d) The required amount of payment in lieu of notice must equal or exceed the total of all amounts that, if the employee’s employment had continued until the end of the required period of notice, Linfox would have become liable to pay to the employee because of the employment continuing during that period. That total must be calculated on the basis of: (i) the employee’s ordinary hours of work (even if not standard hours); and (ii) the amounts ordinarily payable to the employee in respect of those hours, including (for example) allowances, loading and penalties; and (iii) any other amounts payable under the employee’s contract of employment. (e) The period of notice and pay in lieu of notice specified in this clause only applies to those employees to whom section 661 of the Workplace Relations Act 1996 (Cth) applies, as varied from time to time.