Annual Recreation Leave
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36. Annual Recreation Leave
36.1 Accrued leave is the leave that an employee is entitled to from a previous calendar year. 36.2 Pro rata leave is the proportion of leave that an employee is entitled to in the current calendar year, either from the date of commencement, or to the date of cessation. 36.3 An employee shall be entitled to recreation leave of 150 hours on full pay for each completed year of service. Entitlements to recreation leave are credited on a pro-rata basis of 5.77 hours per fortnightly pay period. 36.3.1 Employees’ may elect to access up to their full annual leave entitlement in advance subject to operational requirements. Should employees subsequently resign in the year after accessing their annual entitlement, they are then required to repay their overdrawn entitlements. The repayment is based on one third of a week’s pay at the ordinary rate of salary in respect of each completed month for the balance of the year. The University may deduct the amount of any such overdrawn entitlements from the employee’s final salary payment. 36.4 A part-time employee shall be granted annual recreation leave in accordance with this clause, however payment to a part-time employee proceeding on annual recreation leave shall be calculated having regard for any variations to the employee’s ordinary working hours during the accrual period. 36.5 An employee who, during an accrual period, was subject to variations in ordinary working hours or whose ordinary working hours during the accrual period are less than the employee’s ordinary working hours at the time of commencement of annual leave, may elect to take a lesser period of annual leave calculated by converting the average ordinary working hours during the accrual period to the equivalent ordinary hours at the time of commencement of annual leave. 36.6 The time during which an employee may take annual recreation leave shall in every case be such as is approved by the Head. Annual recreation leave will normally be taken in periods of at least 37.5 hours provided that the minimum period of leave that can be debited is one (1) hour. 36.7 Where the convenience of the school/section will be served thereby, the entitlement of an employee to annual leave for recreation may be allowed to accumulate - 36.7.1 with the written consent of the Head, for not exceeding three years’ entitlement; and 36.7.2 in very special circumstances and with the approval of the Vice-Chancellor on the recommendation of the Head of the Department, in excess of three years’ entitlement. 36.8 If after one month’s continuous service an employee resigns or the employee’s appointment is terminated through no fault of the employee, the employee shall be paid one third of one week’s pay at the ordinary rate of salary in respect of each completed month of continuous service. 36.8.1 Where an employee who has already taken annual recreation leave entitlement for the year, or part thereof, resigns or is dismissed for any reason, the employee shall refund the value of the unearned portion of such leave calculated on the basis of one third of a week’s pay at the ordinary rate of salary in respect of each completed month for the balance of the year. 36.8.2 An employee who resigns or whose appointment is terminated for any reason shall be paid the monetary equivalent of any annual recreation leave entitlement accrued in accordance with subclause 36.3 of this clause and standing to the employee’s credit at the date of the employee’s resignation or termination of appointment. 36.9 An annual recreation leave loading of an amount determined in accordance with subclause 36.9.1 shall accrue to an employee in respect of each entitlement of annual recreation leave. 36.9.1 The amount of the annual recreation leave loading shall be equal to either 17.5% of four weeks’ salary or the amount determined by the Australian Bureau of Statistics as the “average weekly earnings per male employed unit” in Australia for the September quarter immediately preceding the date the entitlement to leave became due, whichever is the lesser. 36.9.2 Payment of the annual leave recreation leave loading will be effected with a salary payment in November or December of each year. Employees are not entitled to elect payment of annual leave recreation loading at any other time and such payments will not be available. 36.9.3 Annual recreation leave accrued prior to 1st January, 1974 will not qualify for a loading, regardless of when the leave is taken. 36.9.4 An employee who resigns or whose appointment is terminated for reasons other than through no fault of the employee shall not be paid the annual recreation leave loading for any pro rata period of leave. 36.9.5 Where the provisions of subclause 36.8.1 of this clause apply and the employee has been paid pro rata annual recreation leave loading in accordance subclause 36.9.2 the employee shall also refund such pro rata leave loading payment. 36.10 Should any of the holidays referred to in clause 39 – Holidays and Christmas Closedown occur during the period an employee is absent on annual recreation leave a day in lieu of each holiday shall be added to the period of annual recreation leave, provided that no day shall be added where any of the prescribed holidays fall on a Saturday, Sunday or a holiday not observed by the University. 36.11 The provisions of this clause shall not apply to casual employees.
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