AN120118 – Charitable, Aged and Disability Care Services (State) Award

AN120118 – Charitable, Aged and Disability Care Services (State) Award

9. MEALS

(i)

(a) Employees shall not be required to work more than six (6) 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) However, employees engaged in homecare duties may be rostered to have a paid 20- minute break in the place of the meal break where they are required to remain with the client during such break.

(c) In the event that all or some of the meals of breakfast, lunch and dinner are not provided for a live-in housekeeper, the employer shall reimburse such reasonable amounts for same, upon proof of expenditure.

(ii) Notwithstanding the provisions of sub-clause (i), 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 thirty-minute meal breaks or one 60-minute meal break, subject to agreement between employer and employee.

(iii) 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:

(a) an amount set out in Item 2 of Table 2 of Part B, Monetary Rates for breakfast;

(b) an amount set out in Item 3 of Table 2 of Part B, Monetary Rates for luncheon;