Pieceworkers & leave in the Horticulture Award

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Full-time and part-time pieceworkers get paid leave. Leave accumulates based on their ordinary hours of work.

Leave is paid at the employee's ordinary hourly rate, which is worked out as follows:

Step 1: work out the total amount earned by the employee in a particular period.

Step 2: divide that amount by the total number of hours worked in the same period.

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