NSW Caselaw
Industrial Relations Commission of New South Wales
CITATION: PSA & the Zoo [2007] NSWIRComm 1080
APPLICANT: PARTIES: Public Service Association and Professional Officers' Association Amalgamated Union of New South Wales. RESPONDENT Zoological Parks Board of New South Wales
FILE NUMBER(S): 543 of 2007
CORAM: Ritchie C
Dispute notification Employees had been working a 19/20 cycle for many years Employer varied roster and deleted the flexi day. CATCHWORDS: Employee argued that flexi day became term of the employee's contract and also implied through custom and practice. Employer argued that the 19/20 roster never expressed as part of employee's contract of employment and was not a custom and practice. Commission found that all employees in the particular department had worked the 19/20 cycle and that a custom and practice had existed. Ordered for the employer to return the named employees to a roster that provided a 19/20 cycle.
LEGISLATION CITED: Industrial Relations Act 1996
CASES CITED: Federated Ironworkers Association of Australia, New South Wales Division and Australian Fertilizers Ltd re overtime. (1977A.R. 17). Halesbury's Laws of England, 3rd ed., vol X1.
HEARING DATES: 25/09/07
DATE OF JUDGMENT: 23 October 2007
Applicant Mr M Gibian of Counsel Solicitor W.G.McNally Jones Staff LEGAL REPRESENTATIVES:
Respondent Mr M. J Davis of Public Employment Office
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