| Seasonal Trades and Services Staff shall enjoy the same leave and holiday entitlements as full-time and part-time Trades and Services Staff subject to the following conditions. |
| 63.1 |
Seasonal Trades and Services Staff members will be entitled to annual leave and such leave will accumulate at the rate of one-twelfth of ordinary time worked. The annual leave loading of 17.5% will be payable in lieu of the relevant seasonal loading prescribed in clause 61.2. |
| 63.2 |
In addition but subject to clauses 41.2, 41.3 and 41.4, seasonal Trades and Services Staff members shall have the option each year of taking payment in lieu of accrued annual leave on the pay day of the first full pay period in November each year. |
| 63.3 |
Seasonal Trades and Services Staff will be entitled to sick leave and such leave will accumulate one-sixteenth of ordinary time worked each year thereafter. Sick leave taken will be paid at the following rates: |
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- ordinary rate of pay plus 8% seasonal loading for staff employed prior to or on 25 November 1997; or
- ordinary rate of pay exclusive of any loadings for staff first employed after 25 November 1997.
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| 63.4 |
Sick leave entitlements are cumulative from year to year provided that any break between a staff member’s seasonal employment engagements is no more than twelve months. |
| 63.5 |
Seasonal Trades and Services Staff will be entitled to long service leave provided that payment shall be at the staff member’s ordinary rate of pay excluding any loadings. |
| 63.6 |
Except where the Trades and Services Staff member has already accepted an offer from the University for a subsequent seasonal employment engagement and the intervening period is no more than twelve months, seasonal Trades and Services Staff will receive payment in lieu of any accrued long service leave entitlement upon the expiry of each seasonal employment engagement or the termination of their employment by death, dismissal, notice, resignation, or retirement where such termination precedes the seasonal employment engagement expiry. |
| 63.7 |
The voluntary reduced working year scheme under clause 44 of this Agreement is not available to seasonal Trades and Services Staff. |
| 63.8 |
Where a seasonal Trades and Services Staff member leaves the employ of the University prior to the commencement of the closedown period or his/her seasonal employment engagement expires prior to the commencement of the closedown period, he/she will receive payment in lieu of working Labour Day, Queen’s Birthday, and/or Melbourne Cup Day at the rate of one day’s pay for each of those days worked. |
| 63.9. |
For the purposes of adoption leave and maternity leave, each seasonal employment engagement shall be regarded as employment on a short-term contract. |
