Preliminaries

3. Definitions

“HEW” means Higher Education Worker.

“Ordinary time earnings” means the staff member's salary payable in accordance with the relevant classification as set out in Schedule 3 of this Agreement.

“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 clauses51, 52 or 53 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; and
• time worked on WorkCover rehabilitation with the University after the expiry of accident compensation leave or make-up pay.

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.

“Trades and services staff” for the purposes of this Agreement means employees of Monash University who were formerly covered by the Higher Education Workers Victoria (Interim) Award 1993 prior to the certification of this Agreement and whose terms and conditions of Employment were subject to the provisions of the former state:

• Builders Labourers Award;
• Carpenters Award;
• Electrical Trade Award;
• Factory Engine Drivers Award;
• Garden Employees Award;
• Metal Industry (Skilled) Award;
• Painters Award; or
• Plumbers Award

as preserved pursuant to clause 7 and Schedule D of the Higher Education Workers Victoria (Interim) Award 1993, in addition to those Store Attendants employed by the University in or about Building 40 on the University's Clayton Campus.

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

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