17. Casual Employment

This Part shall apply in common to all Trades and Services Staff except where otherwise expressly provided.

17.1 A casual Trades and Services Staff member is one engaged by the hour and paid by the hour.  Casual Trades and Services Staff members are not entitled to paid or unpaid leave of any kind as well as probationary employment, fractional appointment scheme for retirement planning purposes, fixed-term employment, redeployment, redundancy, termination of employment, apprentice rates, incremental advancement and performance enhancement, overtime span of hours, overtime and crib time and recall to duty.

17.2 A casual Trades and Services Staff member will be paid the ordinary rate plus the following casual loadings as applicable:

• all hours worked Monday to Friday - 20 per cent of the ordinary rate of pay;
• all hours worked on a Saturday - 25 per cent of the ordinary rate of pay; and
• all hours worked on a Sunday - 50 per cent of the ordinary rate of pay.

17.3 A casual Trades and Services Staff member will be paid for a minimum of 2 hours for each period of engagement 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.  Each period of engagement stands alone.