Julie
NSW
Dear Lisa
I work five hours per day by five days per week (25 hours per week). I get paid 4.75 hours but I work five hours per day, thereby accruing sufficient hours for an RDO. At this service, the staff member in my position has always had an RDO after working 19 days, long before I came here.We have just been advised that part timers do not get an RDO because they have not worked 40 hours a week. I can’t find anything in our policies or our enterprise agreement which specifies part timers.
Dear Julie
The Educational Services (Teachers) Award provides for RDO only within the context of a 38 hour week (and thus for full time staff).
The enterprise agreement that covers your long day care centre specifically states that: A full time employee may work under a Rostered Day Off Scheme by agreement with their supervisor. Unfortunately, this means that part time staff members do not have an automatic entitlement to RDO.
However, there is nothing to preclude an employer from allowing a part time staff member to accrue RDO. We have a couple of enterprise agreements in stand alone services that allow this by providing a formula that is used to calculate the percentage of the wage that needs to be banked each week towards an RDO for part time employees.
I suggest you argue that you have been allowed to accrue RDO for many years and removing your access to an RDO each month would be a change in the contractual terms of your employment. Do you have a contract specifying that you are entitled to an RDO each month as a part time employee? If so, please email this to the IEU.
Lisa