Employment Contracts For Members Updated
MPAQ strives to keep members up to date and compliant with legislation. Due to recent legislative amendments, we have made some key changes to our employment contracts.
The key changes include:
- Annual leave
- Many Awards have been updated to reflect a consistent approach for temporary shutdowns and the use of annual leave. As such, the contract has been amended to reflect situations where an employer has a temporary shutdown period (such as over the Christmas/New Year period) and the employee does not have enough annual leave entitlement to cover this period.
- Other leave entitlements
- As there has been an introduction of family and domestic violence leave – for businesses with 15+ employees this commenced on 1 February 2023, for businesses with 14 or less employees this will commence from 1 August 2023 – we have included a reference to this in the contract.
- Code of conduct, sexual harassment, and bullying
- We have amended the wording to reflect the legislative changes and for employees to not engage in any sexual harassment, bullying, or discrimination.
- Health
- The wording has been amended so that the employee must allow the employer to contact the employee’s treating doctor if they have an illness or injury that is preventing them from being able to perform their duties on an ongoing basis.
MPAQ’s employment contracts are created specifically for the plumbing and gas industry, in conjunction with Cornwalls Law. Contracts are customisable to every business’ unique needs.
Specific contracts are available for full time, part time, and casual workers under the different Modern Awards. Visit the MPAQ online shop for all available contracts.
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