Definitions (Trades and Services CRCCM Enterprise Agreement 2005)

3. Definitions

"HEW" means Higher Education Worker.

"JCC" means Joint Consultative Committee as established in clause 10 of this agreement.

"MES" means Monyx Education Services Pty Ltd.

"MES Staff" means staff employed by the University, under the management of MES.

"MRS" means the Monash Residential Services Accomodation Units.

"Ordinary time earnings" means the staff member’s salary payable in accordance with the relevant classification as set out in Schedule 2 of this Agreement, plus any part-time loading (where applicable).

"Position Classification Standards" means the Higher Education Worker classification descriptors for contained in the Classification Manual of the University dated at 28 October 2005.

"Reasonable Travelling Time" means the period of time normally required to travel from the place of residence of the Trades and Services Staff member to his/her normal workplace and back.

"Representative" means a person chosen by a Trades and Services Staff member but not a practicing barrister or solicitor.

"Service" for the purpose of determining the leave entitlement of a staff member and for all other purposes means:

• any period of paid leave with long service leave taken on half pay counting as normal service;
• any continuous period of sick leave without pay not exceeding twenty working days;
• any period of sick leave without pay not exceeding, in the aggregate, twenty working days in any year of service;
• any period of parental leave as per Schedule 5 hereof not exceeding 26 weeks;
• any period of leave without pay for the purpose of contesting elections to Federal or State Parliament;
• any period of arbitration leave without pay;
• any other period of unpaid leave, whether continuous or aggregate, not exceeding twenty working days in any year of service;
• time worked on WorkCover rehabilitation with the University after the expiry of accident compensation leave or make-up pay; and
• any school term breaks during which Program Assistants of the University's Elwyn Morey Centre are stood down

but excludes periods or roster cycles during which an MES Food and Beverage seasonal catering staff member or MES Retail (other than Monash University Bookshop) seasonal staff member is not engaged. Provided that where a staff member’s service is not continuous, the aggregate period of service including service recognised from previous employers shall count as service for the purpose of determining the staff member’s entitlement to long service leave.

"Suitable Vacant Position" means a position at the staff member’s current classification and for which the staff member has the appropriate skills and qualifications level.

"Trades and services staff" or "staff" for the purposes of this Agreement means employees of Monash University who are employed in one of the following classifications:

• Catering;
• Retail Services;
• Tea Attendants;
• Cleaning and/or Caretaking including Stewards;
• Childcare Workers, including Kindergarten and Playcentre Assistants;
• Kindergarten Teachers;
• Mothercraft Nurses;
• Security Patrol at Peninsula Campus;
• Control Room Operators of the Security and Traffic Section on Clayton Campus; and
• Storage services staff.

"University" means Monash University, a body politic and corporate established under the Monash University Act 1958 and comprises all of its campuses wherever situated.

"University Policy" means the policy of the University as in force and varied from time to time.

"Vice-Chancellor" means the Vice-Chancellor of Monash University or his/her nominated delegate.