AN120098 – Butter, Cheese & Other Dairy Products (State) Award
12.1 All time worked outside the ordinary rostered working hours will be overtime. This time will be paid for at the rate of time and one-half for the first two hours and double time thereafter.
12.2 However, a shift worker working on his/her weekly day(s) off, other than a Sunday, or a day worker on a five-day week, Monday to Friday inclusive, working on Saturday will be paid time and one-half for the first four hours and double time thereafter for such overtime.
12.3 An employee who is directed and does attend to work overtime at the hours required by the employer on Saturday or his/her weekly day(s) off, will be paid a minimum of four hours at the appropriate rates of pay.
12.4 Where overtime commences on one calendar day and extends into the following calendar day, the whole period of overtime will be deemed to have been worked on the former day for the purposes of calculation of overtime.
12.5 An employee who is called back to work overtime after leaving the employer’s business premises (whether notified before or after leaving the premises) will be paid a minimum of two hours at the appropriate overtime rate for each period so recalled.
12.6 Rest Period After Overtime
12.6.1 When overtime is necessary, it will be arranged where practicable so that employees have at least eight consecutive hours off duty between work of successive days.
12.6.2 An employee (other than a daily hand) who works so much overtime between the end of his/her ordinary work on one day and the start of his/her ordinary work on the next day, that he/she has not had at least eight consecutive hours off duty between those times will, subject to this subclause, be released after such overtime until he/she has had eight consecutive hours off duty without loss of pay for ordinary working time occurring during such absence.
12.6.3 If, on the instructions of his/her employer, such an employee resumes or continues work without having had eight consecutive hours off duty, he/she will be paid at double rates until he/she is released from duty for this period and he/she will then 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.
12.7 Each day will stand alone in the calculation of overtime, except when worked continuously from one calendar day into the next
