AN120130 – Clerical and Administrative Employees in Temporary Employment Services (State) Award
(i) All Temporary Employees —
(a) The ordinary hours of work, exclusive of meal hours, shall not exceed 38 hours per week, and except as provided in clause 7, Shift Work, shall be worked between the hours of 6.00 a.m. and 6.00 p.m., Monday to Friday, inclusive, and between the hours of 6.00 a.m. and 12 noon on a Saturday.
(b) A five day week shall apply in any case in which the ordinary week’s work of 38 hours can be performed in five days aforesaid without:
(1) detriment to the public interest;
(2) loss of the value of goods handled or to be handled;
(3) reducing the efficiency of production; or
(4) reducing the efficiency of the necessary services;
and provided the majority of employees of the establishment in which the employee is working desire to work their ordinary hours in five days as aforesaid.
Any dispute as to whether the ordinary hours of work can in any case be worked in five days without detriment, loss or reduction as aforesaid shall be determined by the Industrial Relations Commission of New South Wales of the Clerks (State) Industrial Committee upon application made by or on behalf of the employees. Upon such an application proof that the working of a five day week will result in such detriment, loss or reduction as aforesaid shall be upon the employer.
(c) Where a five day week is worked the ordinary hours of work shall not exceed eight hours per day, Monday to Friday, inclusive, between the hours of 6.00 a.m. and 6.00 p.m.
(d) Where a five-and-a-half day week is worked, the ordinary hours of work shall not exceed seven hours 12 minutes per day, Monday to Friday inclusive, and four hours on Saturday.
(e) The starting time, when once fixed, shall not be altered without seven days’ notice being given by the employer to the employees. However, in an emergency, an employer and an employee may agree to change such employee’s commencing and starting times with less than seven day’s notice; provided that the employee shall be entitled to have the union delegate present when such matters are discussed.
