Common use of RDO Schedule/ Working Day Calendar Clause in Contracts

RDO Schedule/ Working Day Calendar. (a) The Employer recognizes that hours accrued in accordance with clause 35 create a bank of hours to be drawn upon by the Employee, as a paid RDO. The Employer recognizes that Employees are entitled to take off days accrued in accordance with this clause. (b) The agreed indicative RDO/Working Day Calendars for 2024 to 2029 are attached at Appendix D of this Agreement. (c) For the avoidance of doubt, nothing in the arrangement for an indicative RDO / Working Day Calendar is intended to impose a limit on the ability of the Employer to determine with its Employees when and where work can be performed to meet operational requirements or otherwise limit the Employer’s right to manage its business and improve productivity. (d) It is recognised that there is merit in programming no work on the RDOs adjacent to public holiday weekends during the working year. This will allow Employees to have quality paid family leisure time. A Designated Long Weekend (DLW) is a weekend where an RDO below falls adjacent to (either before or after) a public holiday. Where work is required on RDOs which falls on a DLW, the Procedure will be followed, and agreement must be reached between the Employer and a majority of affected Employees. An Employee required to work, in addition to accrued entitlements, will be paid as if they were undertaking Public Holiday Work in accordance with clause 36.10 of this Agreement, for each weekend day, the public holiday and the RDO. All Employees who work on the Scheduled RDO will be granted an alternative RDO to another day falling within six weeks of the originally scheduled day provided that the re-scheduled RDO is to be taken on a day or days adjacent to a weekend or in conjunction with annual leave, or as otherwise agreed between the Employer and the majority of its affected Employee/s, such agreement shall not to be unreasonably withheld. Note 1: See also Easter and Christmas Shut Down at clause 38.7.

RDO Schedule/ Working Day Calendar. (a) The Employer recognizes that hours accrued in accordance with clause 35 create a bank of hours to be drawn upon by the Employee, as a paid RDO. The Employer recognizes that Employees are entitled to take off days accrued in accordance with this clause.with (b) The calendars for 2021 to 2026 and Christmas Closedown dates for 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25, 2025/26 and 2026/27 have been agreed indicative RDO/Working Day and are attached (Appendix D). Calendars for 2024 subsequent years shall be determined no later than 31 March of the year preceding the year under consideration. In relation to 2029 are attached at Appendix D this agreement, the schedule of this Agreement.RDO’s to be observed each year will generally be as provided for in the industry calendar, (c) Where the Company does not already have an “A” and “B” RDO roster system, the Company with the agreement of a majority of the employees will develop an “A” and “B” RDO roster to allow the Company to provide service, on Industry RDO’s other than fixed long weekends, for clients outside the Victorian commercial / industrial construction sector. The calendar will be developed so that all employees are classified as “A” or “B”, and all parties will have a full understanding of the re- scheduled RDO’s. The re-scheduled “B” RDO’s will be fixed each year and be taken on the Monday following the Industry RDO (“A” RDO). Those working as scheduled on the “A” RDO or the “B” RDO will be paid ordinary time on those days. The re-scheduled RDO’s will be reviewed on a quarterly basis and there will be an ability to rotate the “A” and “B” roster, (d) Overtime will not be scheduled on any Fixed Long Weekend as agreed in the Industry Calendar. This does not limit the right to schedule overtime on such weekends in the case of an emergency, (e) For the avoidance of doubt, nothing in the arrangement for an indicative RDO / Working Day Calendar is intended to impose a limit on the ability of the Employer to determine with its Employees when and where work can be performed to meet operational requirements or otherwise limit the Employer’s right to manage its business and improve productivity. (d) It is recognised that there is merit in programming no work on the RDOs adjacent to public holiday weekends during the working year. This will allow Employees to have quality paid family leisure time. A Designated Long Weekend (DLW) is a weekend where an RDO below falls adjacent to (either before or after) a public holiday. Where work is required on RDOs which falls on a DLW, the Procedure will be followed, and agreement must be reached between the Employer and a majority of affected Employees. An Employee required to work, in addition to accrued entitlements, will be paid as if they were undertaking Public Holiday Work in accordance with clause 36.10 of this Agreement, for each weekend day, the public holiday and the RDO. All Employees who work on the Scheduled RDO will be granted an alternative RDO to another day falling within six weeks of the originally scheduled day provided that the re-scheduled RDO is to be taken on a day or days adjacent to a weekend or in conjunction with annual leave, or as otherwise agreed between the Employer and the majority of its affected Employee/s, such agreement shall not to be unreasonably withheld. Note 1: See also Easter and Christmas Shut Down at clause 38.7.