Annual Leave
The basic entitlement to annual leave is for 4 weeks of paid annual leave every year. All full-time and part-time employees covered by WorkChoices are entitled to paid annual leave. Part-time employees accrue their annual leave on a pro-rata basis. Annual leave accrues for each completed 4 week period of continuous service and is cumulative. Casual employees do not have an entitlement to annual leave under the Standard. Continuous shift workers get 1 extra week of annual leave every year, provided that they regularly work both Sundays and public holidays (not either Sundays or public holidays).
When taking annual leave, employees are entitled to at least the basic rate of pay they are on at the time of commencing the annual leave. It is also possible for employees to request to cash out up to 2 weeks (or the pro rata equivalent for part-time employees) of their accrued annual leave entitlement every 12 months. However, this can only occur if a term in a workplace agreement specifically permits cashing out. Requests to cash out annual leave must be in writing and can be refused by an employer. An employer must not require an employee to cash out an entitlement to annual leave, or exert undue influence or pressure on an employee.
Read more about this topic: Australian Fair Pay And Conditions Standard, Provisions
Famous quotes containing the words annual and/or leave:
“Every individual necessarily labours to render the annual revenue of the society as great as he can. He generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the publick interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it.... He intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.”
—Adam Smith (1723–1790)
“Who knows whither the clouds have fled?
In the unscarred heaven they leave no wake,
And the eyes forget the tears they have shed,
The heart forgets its sorrow and ache;
The soul partakes the season’s youth,
And the sulphurous rifts of passion and woe
Lie deep ‘neath a silence pure and smooth,
Like burnt-out craters healed with snow.”
—James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)