Enterprise Bargaining Agreement
(Trades & Services Staff - Catering & Retail, Cleaning & Caretaking, & Miscellaneous Services Staff) 2000

Part 4 - Conditions applying to cleaning and caretaking staff

Section 1 - University and Staff Members' Duties, Employment Relationship and Related Arrangements

105. Casual Employment

This Part shall apply to trades and services staff engaged in cleaning and/or caretaking, including Building Attendants/Stewards of Monash Unicomm.

105. CASUAL EMPLOYMENT

105.1 A casual staff member is one engaged in work of a short-term nature and/or on an irregular and unsystematic basis but does not include an employee who may otherwise be properly classified as a full-time, part-time or seasonal staff member under the terms of this Agreement.

105.2 A casual staff member shall be paid per hour of time worked one thirty-eighth of the weekly rate prescribed for the classification in which the staff member is engaged plus the following casual loadings as applicable:

• any and all hours worked any time Monday to Friday - 25 per cent of the ordinary rate of pay;
• any and all hours worked on a Saturday - 50 per cent of the ordinary rate of pay; and
• any and all hours worked on a Sunday - 75 per cent of the ordinary rate of pay.

Penalty payments payable to casual staff members for shift work will be calculated on the basis of the staff member's ordinary rate of pay exclusive of any casual loading, but such casual loading will be paid in addition to any shift work penalty payment payable.

105.3 Each period of engagement of a casual staff member shall stand alone and shall be treated as an engagement of not less than two hours and be paid for as such at the appropriate rate payable, irrespective of whether the actual duration of the engagement is less than two hours. Provided that this prescribed minimum engagement payment will not apply to casual staff members who are students of the University and who work two or more hours in a fortnightly payroll period.

For the purposes of this clause, "engagement" means the period or periods for which the University notifies the staff member that he/she is so required to attend on any one day.

105.4 Termination of casual employment shall be by one hour's notice on either side or by the payment or forfeiture, as the case may be, of the remainder of the payment for that engagement or one hour's pay, whichever is the greater. Provided that the University is not obliged to give notice or payment in lieu thereof where the staff member's conduct justifies instant dismissal, and in such circumstances any entitlements under this Agreement are to be paid up to the time of dismissal only.

105.5 Casual staff members have no entitlement to any paid or unpaid leave (including annual leave loading). In addition, any clauses of this Agreement applying specifically to full-time, part-time and/or seasonal staff members or catering and retail staff or miscellaneous service staff shall have no application to casual staff members under this Part, as well as the following: