Enterprise Bargaining Agreement
(Trades & Services Staff - Catering & Retail, Cleaning & Caretaking, & Miscellaneous Services Staff) 2000

Part 5 - Conditions applying to miscellaneous services staff

Section 2 - University and Staff Members' Duties, Employment Relationship and Related Arrangements

122. Casual Employment
123. Seasonal Employment for Child Care Workers, Kindergarten Teachers, Mothercraft Nurses, and Sports Control
     Desk Staff

This Part shall apply to the following categories of trades and services staff:

• Child Care Workers, including Kindergarten and Play Centre Assistants
• Drivers
• Kindergarten Teachers
• Mothercraft Nurses
• Control Room Operators of the Security and Traffic Section on Clayton Campus
• Security patrol staff on Peninsula Campus
• Sports Control Desk staff on Clayton Campus
• Staff engaged in printing or related graphic arts services
• Storage services staff

122. CASUAL EMPLOYMENT

122.1 A casual staff member is one engaged in work of a short-term nature and/or on an irregular and unsystematic basis but does not include an employee who may otherwise be properly classified as a full-time, part-time or seasonal staff member under the terms of this Agreement.

122.2 A casual staff member shall be paid per hour of time worked one thirty-eighth of the weekly rate prescribed for the classification in which the staff member is engaged plus the following casual loadings as applicable:

Security patrol staff on the University's Peninsula Campus:

• any and all hours worked any time Monday to Friday - 20 per cent of the ordinary rate of pay;
• any and all hours worked on a Saturday - 50 per cent of the ordinary rate of pay; and
• any and all hours worked on a Sunday - 100 per cent of the ordinary rate of pay.

Other miscellaneous services staff:

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

Provided that casual Sports Control Desk staff on the University's Clayton Campus who commenced their current casual engagement prior to the date of certification of this Agreement shall instead be entitled to payment of the following casual loadings up to the termination of their current casual engagement:

• 7.00am-5.45pm Monday to Thursday, 7.00am-9.00pm Friday, and/or 7.00am-12.00pm Saturday - 25 per cent of the ordinary rate of pay; and
• 5.45pm-11.00pm Monday to Thursday, 9.00pm-11.00pm Friday, 12.00pm-11.00pm Saturday, and/or 7.00am-11.00pm Sunday - 100 per cent of the ordinary rate of pay.

122.3 Each period of engagement of a casual staff member shall stand alone and shall be treated as an engagement of not less than two hours and be paid for as such at the appropriate rate payable, irrespective of whether the actual duration of the engagement is less than two hours. 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.

122.4 Termination of casual employment shall be by one hour's notice on either side or by the payment or forfeiture, as the case may be, of the remainder of the payment for that engagement or one hour's pay, whichever is the greater. Provided that the University is not obliged to give notice or payment in lieu thereof where the staff member's conduct justifies instant dismissal, and in such circumstances any entitlements under this Agreement are to be paid up to the time of dismissal only.

122.5 Casual staff members have no entitlement to any paid or unpaid leave (including annual leave loading). In addition, any clauses of this Agreement applying specifically to full-time, part-time and/or seasonal staff members or catering and retail staff or cleaning and caretaking staff shall have no application to casual staff members under this Part, as well as the following:

123. SEASONAL EMPLOYMENT FOR CHILD CARE WORKERS, KINDERGARTEN TEACHERS, MOTHERCRAFT NURSES AND SPORTS CONTROL DESK STAFF

123.1 The University may engage staff in seasonal employment where the demand for children's services or Sports Control Desk services is subject to seasonal fluctuation.

123.2 Each seasonal employment engagement of a staff member shall be no less than the period of a single semester but less than a calendar year.

123.3 Staff may be engaged in seasonal employment to work either 38 hours per week or a fraction of 38 hours per week.

123.4 The period between the completion of one seasonal employment engagement and the commencement of the staff member's next seasonal employment engagement will not interrupt the staff member's continuity of service with the University where such period is twelve months or less. Provided that such intervening period will not count as service for the accrual of leave or for the purposes of incremental progression, eligibility for parental leave, the accrual of non-cumulative University holidays for the annual Christmas/New Year closedown, and/or the calculation of service for severance payments.

123.5 Probation periods do not apply where the staff member's second or subsequent seasonal employment engagement is in the same position as the staff member's initial seasonal employment engagement.