AN120012 – Aged Care Industry (Broken Hill) Award
(a) Employees shall not be required to work more than five hours without a meal break. Such meal break shall be of between 30 and 60 minutes duration and shall not count as time worked.
(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of subclause (a) of this clause, an employee required to work shifts in excess of 10 hours shall be entitled to a 60-minute meal break. Such time shall be taken as either two 30-minute meal breaks or one 60-minute meal break, subject to agreement between the employer and the employee.
(c) Two separate ten minute tea breaks (in addition to meal breaks) shall be allowed to each employee on duty during each ordinary shift of 7.6 hours or more.
(d) Where less than 7.6 ordinary hours are worked, employees shall be allowed one ten minute break in each four hour period.
(e) Subject to agreement between the employer and the employee, the two ten-minute tea breaks may alternatively be taken as one 20-minute break, or by one ten-minute break with the employee allowed to proceed off duty ten minutes before the completion of the normal finishing time.
(f) Such tea break (s) shall count as working time.
