STAND DOWN. The Company may stand down an Employee if the Employee cannot be usefully employed in productive work because of an industrial dispute, or because of machinery breakdown or a stoppage or downturn of work that the Company is not reasonably responsible for. An Employee is not entitled to payment when stood down.
STAND DOWN. 19.1 The Employer may stand down an Employee without pay where the Employee cannot be usefully employed due to a strike, or breakdown of machinery, or stoppage of work for any cause where the Employer cannot reasonably be held responsible.
19.2 For the avoidance of doubt, an Employee’s continuity of service is not broken during a period of stand down.
STAND DOWN. Any employee, with 2 weeks' or more of continuous service, whose employment has been terminated by the employer or who has been stood down by the employer during the month of December, and who is re-employed in January of the following year, shall be entitled to payment at the ordinary rate payable to that employee when they were dismissed or stood down, for any one or more of the following holidays, namely, Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year's Day.
STAND DOWN. The Company is entitled to deduct payment for any day the Company considers that the Employee cannot be usefully employed because of any strike, or any breakdown in machinery, or any stoppage of work by any cause which ceases operation for which the Company cannot be reasonably held responsible, having reviewed the situation and having no reasonable alternative work available.
STAND DOWN. Notwithstanding anything elsewhere contained in this Agreement, an Employer may deduct payment for any day or part thereof where an Employee cannot be usefully employed because of any strike, ban on work, or any other stoppage or interference beyond the control of the Employer but subject to the following conditions:
16.14.1 Where the Employer proposes to exercise the right given hereunder, it shall notify the Employee and where the employee requests it, advise the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance accordingly. During the period such notification remains in force, the Employee shall be deemed to be stood down for the purpose of this sub clause.
16.14.2 An Employee who is stood down as aforesaid shall be treated for all purposes (other than payment of wages) as having continuity of service and employment notwithstanding such stand down.
16.14.3 An Employer, if requested by an Employee stood down or about to be stood down under this sub clause shall on the day of the stand down or as soon as practicable pay the Employee:
(a) All monies excluding annual leave due and payable to the Employee under his/her contract of employment as at the date on which the Employee is stood down.
(b) Any payments which would be made to the Employee under the Annual leave clause of this Agreement, as if the employment of the Employee was terminated on the date he/she was stood down provided that such payments shall if the Employer so determines or the Employee so requests be limited to a period of annual leave which is the same length as the period for which the Employee is stood down.
16.14.4 An Employee who is stood down shall be entitled to take other employment (during the stand down period). On obtaining other employment the Employee shall advise the Employer immediately of his/her commitment. Any dispute with regard to the employee taking other employment will be settled thought the Dispute Settling clause.
16.14.5 Notwithstanding anything hereinbefore contained, an Employer will not deduct payment for any day prescribed by the Agreement as a public holiday which occurs during the period of stand down of an Employee except to the extent that such Employee becomes entitled to payment for the holiday in other employment. An Employee claiming payment for a public holiday under this paragraph shall, if required by the Employer, furnish a statutory declaration setting out details of any other employment during this period and the remuneration received herein.
STAND DOWN. 6.3.1 The employer may deduct payment for any day that the employee cannot be usefully employed because of any strike or through any unavoidable stoppage of work for which the employer cannot reasonably be held responsible.
6.3.2 If the employee requests, the employer may allow the employee to take annual leave rather than standing down the employee. Stand down will not affect continuity of service for the purposes of calculating any leave entitlements or service increments.
STAND DOWN. The employer may deduct for any day or part of a day for which the employee cannot be usefully employed because of strike, breakdown of machinery or any stoppage of work for any cause for which the employer cannot reasonably be held to be responsible. Any stand down will not break the employment of the employee for the purposes of continuity of employment.
STAND DOWN. 23.1. The employer may stand down the employee where inclement weather, a break down of machinery, postponement and/or termination of head contract, or any unforeseeable event occurs, which the company cannot reasonably be held accountable for.
STAND DOWN. 41.1 The Company may stand down an Employee during a period in which the Employee cannot usefully be employed because of one of the following circumstances:
a) industrial action (other than industrial action organised or engaged in by the Company);
b) a breakdown of machinery or equipment, if the Company cannot reasonably be held responsible for the breakdown; or
c) a stoppage of work for any cause for which the Company cannot reasonably be held responsible.
41.2 If the Company stands down an Employee under clause 41.1, the Company is not required to make payments to the Employee for that period.
41.3 An Employee's absence during a stand down period counts as service.
STAND DOWN. The practice of temporarily removing an employee from the performance of safety- sensitive functions based only on a report from a laboratory to the MRO of a confirmed positive test for a drug or drug metabolite, an adulterated test, or a substituted test, before the MRO has completed verification of the test result.
