AN120012 – Aged Care Industry (Broken Hill) Award
(a) All time worked by employees outside ordinary hours shall be paid for at the rate of double time; all overtime worked on public holidays shall be paid for at the rate of double time and a half.
(b) An employee recalled to work overtime after leaving the employer's premises, shall be paid for a minimum of four hours work at the appropriate overtime rate for each time so recalled. Provided that, except in unforeseen circumstances arising, an employee shall not be required to work the four hours if the job for which he/she was recalled to perform is completed within a shorter period.
(c) An employee recalled to work overtime shall be paid all fares and expenses reasonably incurred in responding to the recall. Where, in so responding, an employee uses his/her own transport, a motor vehicle allowance shall be paid as set out in Item 1 of Table 2 - Allowances, of Part B, Monetary Rates.
(d) When overtime work is necessary it shall be arranged, as far as it is practicable, so that employees have at least eight consecutive hours off duty between work on successive days or shifts.
(e) An employee who works so much overtime:-
(i) between the termination of their ordinary work on any day or shift and the commencement of their ordinary work on the next day or shift that they have not had at least eight consecutive hours off duty between these times; or
(ii) on a Saturday, Sunday, and/or a Public Holiday, not being ordinary working days, or on a rostered day off without having had eight consecutive hours off duty in the twenty-four hours preceding the ordinary commencing time on his/her next ordinary day or shift; shall, subject to these subclauses, be released after completion of such overtime, until he/she has eight consecutive hours off duty without loss of pay for ordinary working time occurring during such absence. If on the instruction of the employer such an employee resumes or continues to work without having such eight consecutive hours off duty, such employee shall be paid at double time until released from duty for such period and the employee then shall be entitled to be absent until he/she has had eight consecutive hours off duty without loss of pay for ordinary working time occurring during such absence.
(f) For the purposes of assessing overtime, each day shall stand alone, provided however that where any one period of overtime is continuous and extends beyond midnight, all overtime hours in this period shall be regarded as if they had occurred within the day first occurring.
(g) Permanent part-time employees will be entitled to be paid overtime on any day they work in excess of 8 ordinary hours. However by mutual agreement, Permanent part-time employees may work shifts in excess of eight hours up to a maximum of ten hours at ordinary rates of pay. In this case overtime payments for that shift would not commence until the completion of the agreed shift time which could be anything between eight and ten hours.
(h) An employee who is required to work overtime for more than two hours and such overtime goes beyond 7:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. shall, at the option of the employer, be supplied with a meal or shall be paid:
(i) For breakfast; an amount equal to 60% of the ordinary hourly rate prescribed for a Personal Care Assistant Grade 2, rounded up to the nearest five cents, as set out in Item 2 of Table 2 - Allowances, of Part B, Monetary Rates.
(ii) For lunch; an amount equal to 70% of the ordinary hourly rate prescribed for a Personal Care Assistant Grade 2, rounded up to the nearest five cents, as set out in Item 3 of the said Table 2.
(iii) For dinner; an amount equal to 100% of the ordinary hourly rate prescribed for a Personal Care Assistant Grade 2, rounded up to the nearest five cents, as set out in Item 4 of Table 2.
