RECREATION LEAVE ACCRUAL. An employee (other than an employee rostered to work over seven days per week (refer to the section below), or a casual employee) who works 37.5 hours per week accrues and is credited with recreation leave in hours at a rate equivalent to 12.5 hours recreation leave for each completed month of service. For the purposes of recreation leave, a service year commences on the date of employment as a public sector employee and each subsequent anniversary of this date (excluding an employee who has prior service as a casual employee). Service years for recreation leave are not altered by leave without pay (though entitlements may be reduced). Refer to Section G - Recognition of Prior Service for information on the impact of prior service on service years for recreational leave purposes. Recreation leave is to be calculated, recorded and taken in working hours. An employee, including an employee in their first year of service, is entitled to take recreation leave which has accrued and been credited on the basis of completed months of service. It should be noted that it is a fundamental principle of recreation leave that an employee is entitled to 4, 5 or 6 calendar weeks (as provided through an industrial instrument) away from the workplace for rest and recuperation during a service year. means the equivalent number of hours normally worked by a full time employee during such period. Casual Employees Casual employees do not accrue and are not entitled to take recreation leave. An employee who is regularly rostered to work on active duties in ordinary hours on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays (including at least half the Sundays and Public Holidays occurring in a year), accrues and is credited with recreation leave at the rate of the equivalent of 15.625 hours of recreation leave for each completed month of their service (equivalent to 25 working days per service year).
