Taking of Leave. (a) Annual leave shall be given and shall be taken within a period of six months after the date when the right to annual leave accrued; provided that the giving and taking of such leave may be postponed by mutual agreement between the parties for a further period not exceeding six months.
(b) Where an employee requests, annual leave can be taken in single days.
(c) The employer shall provide a response within a reasonable timeframe giving consideration to the urgency of the application to an employee’ application for annual leave.
Taking of Leave. 5.3.1 The taking of leave will, as far as practicable, be correlated with the running of the Vessel. The period of absence granted will approximate as closely as possible both to the actual amount of leave due to the Employee and to the date and time when the Employee can most conveniently return to duty.
5.3.2 The Employee may elect to receive payment for all of their leave entitlement when they sign off the Vessel to commence the Off Swing period of the roster cycle.
5.3.3 The normal roster cycle will consist of an On Swing period of work followed by a corresponding period of Off Swing, each being of seven weeks duration and variable by up to one week either side to minimize travel costs depending on the trading of the Vessel.
5.3.4 These arrangements may be varied by mutual consent to enable the Employee to take leave at a time agreed with their immediate relief, provided the Company is notified in writing, prior to the mutual swing and provided there will be no additional cost incurred by the Company.
5.3.5 If an Employee elects not to take all or part of their annual leave as accrued in accordance with the Australian Fair Pay and Conditions Standard during the period of leave provided for by this clause, that component of leave accrued shall remain credited to the Employee. Any period in relation to which the Employee is on leave but in relation to which the Employee has insufficient accrued leave (excluding annual leave) shall be taken as either leave without pay or as leave in advance in accordance with clause 5.4 or in the event that the Company is required to stand down Employees
5.3.6 Subject to meeting the requirements of clause 5.6, absences from duty for personal leave purposes will be debited at the rate of eight hours for each day except where the absence is less than one day, when a debit for each hour of absence will apply.
5.3.7 All other authorised absences, including annual leave will be debited from leave accruals on the basis of eight hours for each Off Swing day. It is an agreed term of this Agreement that annual leave shall only be taken during the period an Employee is Rostered Off Swing.
Taking of Leave. (a) When an Employee becomes entitled to long service leave such leave will be granted by the Employer within six months from the date of the entitlement, but the taking of such leave may be postponed to such date as is mutually agreed, or in default of agreement as is determined by the Commission; provided that no such determination will require such leave to commence before the expiry of six months from the date of such determination.
Taking of Leave. (a) When Leave is to be taken
(i) long service leave may be postponed to a mutually agreeable date; or
(ii) if agreement cannot be reached, the date will be determined by a member of the Commission provided that such a determination will not require leave to commence before six months from the date of such determination.
(b) How leave is to be taken
(i) in one or more periods, with each period being not less than a week; or
(ii) where it is taken as part of a transition to retirement arrangement, in any other way agreed upon by the Employer and Employee.
(c) Flexible taking of leave: double leave at half pay or half leave at double pay
(i) An Employee may make an application to the Employer to take:
A. double the period of long service leave at half pay; or
B. half the period of long service leave at double the pay.
(ii) Employees should seek independent advice regarding the taxation and superannuation implications of seeking payment under this subclause 72.3(c). The Employer will not be held responsible in any way for the cost or outcome of any such advice.
(iii) The Employer, if requested by the Employee, will provide information as to the amount of tax the Employer intends to deduct where payment of long service leave is sought under subclause 72.3(c)(i).
(iv) Wherever it is practical to do so, the Employer will grant a request by an Employee to take double the long service leave at half pay or half long service leave at double the pay. If granting the request under this subclause 72.3(c) would result in an additional cost to the Employer, then it is not practical to grant an Employee’s request.
(v) Flexible taking of long service leave does not affect an Employee’s continuous service recognised.
Taking of Leave. (a) The Doctor must provide proof of death or illness to the satisfaction of the Health Service.
(b) Any unused portion of compassionate leave will not accrue from year to year and will not be paid out on termination.
(c) Such leave does not have to be taken consecutively.
(d) A Doctor may take unpaid compassionate leave by agreement with the Health Service.
(e) The Health Service will require the Doctor to provide satisfactory evidence to support the taking of compassionate leave.
Taking of Leave. (i) When leave is to be taken
(A) long service leave may be postponed to a mutually agreeable date;
(B) if agreement cannot be reached:
i. for Group A Employees, the date will be determined by a member of the Fair Work Commission provided that such a determination will not require long service leave to commence before six months from the date of such determination; and
ii. for Group B Employees the date may be determined by the Employee save that the Employer may refuse the date nominated by an Employee on reasonable business grounds.
(C) Employees of the Royal Women's Hospital or Royal Children's Hospital classified in a role described in Schedule 3D who:
i. become entitled to long service leave; and
ii. do not take such leave within two years, may otherwise be required to take an amount of leave to reduce their entitlement to no more than three (3) months, unless deferment of the leave has been approved in writing by the Employer; and
(D) leave the subject of approval or grant under clause 61.2(c)(iii) shall be taken in accordance with the terms of the application or agreement.
(ii) How leave is to be taken
Taking of Leave. (a) When Leave is to be taken
(i) long service leave may be postponed to a mutually agreeable date; and
(ii) if agreement cannot be reached, the date will be determined by a member of the Commission provided that such a determination will not require leave to commence before six months from the date of such determination.
(b) How leave is to be taken
(i) in one period or more periods, with each period being not less than 1 week; or
(ii) where it is taken as part of a transition to retirement arrangement, any other way agreed upon by the Employer and Employee.
Taking of Leave. (a) A Doctor must be granted long service leave within six months of the date eligibility arose under this clause. By agreement, the taking of the leave may be postponed.
(b) Any long service leave is inclusive of public holidays occurring during the period when the leave is taken.
(c) By agreement, the following may occur:
(i) the first six months of the Doctor’s long service leave entitlement may be taken in two or three separate periods;
(ii) any further period of long service leave may be taken in two separate periods.
(d) Flexible taking of leave: Double leave at half pay or half leave at double pay
(i) A Health Service may approve an application by a Doctor to take double the period of long service leave at half pay or half the period of long service leave at double the pay.
(ii) Doctors should seek independent advice regarding the taxation and superannuation implications of seeking payment under this subclause 68.5(d). The Health Service will not be held responsible in any way for the cost or outcome of any such advice.
(iii) The Health Service, if requested by the Doctor, will provide information as to the amount of tax the Health Service intends to deduct where payment of long service leave is sought under subclause 68.5(d)(i).
(iv) If granting the request under this subclause would result in an additional cost to the Health Service, then it is not practical to grant a Doctor’s request.
(v) Flexible taking of long service leave does not affect a Doctor’s period of Continuous Service recognised. For example, a Doctor taking 12 months at half pay will, for the purpose of calculating Continuous Service, have six months of Continuous Service recognised. A Doctor taking three months at double pay will have 6 months of Continuous Service recognised. In either case service will not be broken.
Taking of Leave. (a) An Employee must provide the Employer with four weeks’ notice of the date from which the Employee proposes to commence his or her annual leave, unless otherwise mutually agreed upon between the parties concerned.
(i) Paid annual leave may be taken for a period agreed between an Employee and the Employer, provided that the Employee complies with the Employer’s notification and approval requirements.. The Employer will not unreasonably refuse to agree to a request by the Employee to take paid annual leave. Notwithstanding the provisions of this subclause, the Employer may direct an employee to take a period of annual leave in accordance with subclause (ii).
(ii) Annual leave shall be given at a time fixed by the Employer after a period not exceeding 12 months from the date when the right to annual leave accrued (ie: accrued annual leave for a total period of 24 months) and after not less than eight weeks’ and not more than 12 months’ notice to the employee, provided:
(1) the Employee will first be given a reasonable opportunity to submit a plan to reduce their total annual leave accrued balance to not more than six weeks within a period of six months (leave reduction plan);
(2) the Employer will not unreasonably refuse to agree to an Employee’s annual leave reduction plan which includes saving leave for an extended vacation within 12 months of the date of agreement to the leave reduction plan. The agreement is to be in writing and signed by both the Employer and Employee.
(3) the Employee cannot be directed to take annual leave where such direction would result in the Employee being directed to reduce the accrued leave to less than six weeks.
Taking of Leave. (a) Principals are required to take annual leave in a consecutive period at the commencement of the school summer vacation each year.
(b) Annual leave is exclusive of public holidays (in accordance with Clause 23 – Public Holidays).
(c) Annual leave must be re-credited in accordance with the Act. The Employer may direct that, in the case of a Principal, any re-credited leave be taken during non-term weeks.
