Common use of STANDING DOWN EMPLOYEES Clause in Contracts

STANDING DOWN EMPLOYEES. 19.1 The Company has the right to stand down Employee(s) without payment on any day when the Employee(s) cannot be usefully employed for the day or part thereof because of any strike and/or through any breakdown in machinery and/or plant or a failure of power or a shortage of material or any stoppage of work by any cause for which the Company cannot reasonably be held responsible. 19.2 If an Employee is required by the Company to attend for work on any day, but for a reason specified in clause 19.1 of this Agreement the Employee is provided with no work, the Employee will be entitled to two hours' pay. If the Employee commences work on such day at the Company’s direction, they are entitled to be provided with four hours' work or, failing that, they are entitled to be paid for four hours' work. 19.3 In the event of a stand down in accordance with clause 19.1 of this Agreement, the Company and a majority of the affected Employees may agree that each Employee choosing to do so may work make up time, up to the number of hours of work lost as a result of the stand down, at the rate which would have been applicable to the hours lost. Such make up hours must be worked within seven days of the end of the stand down which led to the loss of working hours. No Employee may be required by the Company to agree to work such make up time and, in the absence of agreement by an Employee to do so, the usual overtime and penalty rates applicable under this Agreement will apply to work performed by such Employees.

STANDING DOWN EMPLOYEES. 19.1 22.1 The Company has the right to stand down Employee(s) without payment on any day when the Employee(s) cannot be usefully employed for the day or part thereof because of any strike strike, and/or through any breakdown in machinery and/or plant or a failure of power or a shortage of material or any stoppage of work by any cause for which the Company cannot reasonably be held responsible. 19.2 22.2 If an Employee is required by the Company to attend for work on any day, but for a reason specified in clause 19.1 22.1 of this Agreement the Employee is provided with no work, the Employee will be entitled to two hours' pay. If the Employee commences work on such day at the Company’s 's direction, they are entitled to be provided with four hours' work or, failing that, they are entitled to be paid for four hours' work. 19.3 22.3 In the event of a stand down in accordance with clause 19.1 22.1 of this Agreement, the Company and a majority of the affected Employees may agree that each Employee choosing to do so may work make up time, up to the number of hours of work lost as a result of the stand down, at the rate which would have been applicable to the hours lost. Such make up hours must be worked within seven days of the end of the stand down which led to the loss of working hours. . 22.4 No Employee may be required by the Company to agree to work such make up time and, in the absence of agreement by an Employee to do so, the usual overtime and penalty rates applicable under this Agreement will apply to work performed by such Employees.