Common use of Close-down Clause in Contracts

Close-down. 4.13.1 Where an SPCA closes down its plant, or a section or sections thereof, for the purposes of allowing annual leave to all or the bulk of the employees in the plant, or section or sections concerned, the following provisions shall apply: (a) SPCA may by giving not less than four weeks' notice of its intention so to do stand off for the duration of the close-down all employees in the plant or section or sections concerned who are entitled to annual leave. S3.4.13.1 (b) SPCA may ask the remainder of the employees in the section or sections concerned who have not accrued enough annual leave to cover the break to take unpaid leave. If employees to whom this sub clause applies refuse to take such leave SPCA must find alternative employment for the employees concerned and the employee must be prepared to be redeployed into the alternative employment for the duration of the closedown