Academic and General Staff - Annual Leave Loading

Provisions for annual leave loading, as set out in the Swinburne University of Technology Academic & General Staff Certified Agreement 2006–2008 are as follows (numbering matches that in the Agreement for easy reference):

31.5.1 Employees are entitled to a 17.5% loading, at the rate of twenty working days for each completed year of service, from the date of appointment subject to a maximum payment of the equivalent of the Commonwealth Statistician’s average weekly total earnings of all males ( Australia ) for the September quarter preceding the date of accrual.

31.5.2 Annual leave loading is calculated on the ordinary salary/wage rate of payment (excluding weekends, public holidays, overtime and penalty rates). Leave loading will be payable on the first pay period in December each year or on the date of termination of employment.

31.5.3 An employee whose employment commenced after 1 December in any year and / or terminated before 30 November will be paid the annual leave loading calculated for each completed month of continuous service.