Ravensthorpe Project Payment. Subject to the conditions set out in this clause, an employee may qualify for the payment of the Ravensthorpe Project Payment (RPP) of up to $150.00 per week which will be paid on termination of employment by the Employer or the employee. To qualify for RPP an employee must be ready, willing and available to work as directed for those hours that they are normally required to work by the Employer, including, in the case of employees who are not engaged on shift work, regular rostered overtime.
a) RPP accrues weekly (from Monday to Sunday);
b) RPP accrues during any week an employee is:
(i) carrying out their normal work;
(ii) on paid leave;
(iii) on authorised, unpaid leave; or
(iv) on workers' compensation, to a maximum of two weeks.
c) RPP does not accrue during any period of:
(i) unauthorised leave; or
(ii) other unauthorised absence.
d) An employee forfeits any RPP that may accrue in any week in which the employee engages in any form of industrial action.. Provided that, in any week in which industrial action occurs the following conditions have been complied with fully:
(i) the employees and their representatives concerned have complied fully to the provisions of Clause 4.4. – Dispute Resolution Procedure up to and including Step 4 of subclause 4.4.1; and
(ii) the parties to this agreement have recorded and signed in accordance with the agreed protocol, that Clause 4.4. - Dispute Resolution Procedure has been fully exhausted up to and including Step 4 of subclause 4.4.1, Last updated by BM – 26/07/06 Page 15 of 27 the employee shall forfeit only that portion of the payment as is referrable to the period of industrial action, calculated in accordance with subclause 3.10 (f).
e) RPP does not accrue during or for a week in which an employee's employment is terminated for misconduct, or in which the employee fails to give notice in accordance with this Agreement.
f) RPP is being calculated as an hourly rate, by dividing the weekly rate of $150.00, by the average number of hours worked per week.
g) An employee who is absent in any week, other than as set out in sub-clause 3.10(b) accrues RPP on an hourly rate calculated in accordance with sub-clause 3.10(f), only by reference to half the time that the employee worked in that week.
