AN120145 – Cold Storage and Ice Employees (State) Award
(i) Day Work –
(a) The ordinary hours of labour shall be 40 per week, to be worked in either four or five consecutive days, Monday to Friday. The ordinary hours of work prescribed herein may be between eight to ten hours per day. The ordinary hours may be worked as eight hours on five consecutive days or ten hours on four consecutive days or otherwise by genuine agreement between the employer and employee.
(b) Provided that any arrangement of ordinary working hours where the ordinary working hours exceed eight hours shall be subject to agreement between the employer, each individual employee and / or the majority of employees in the plant or work section or sections concerned.
The starting and finishing times shall be between the hours of 6.00a.m. to 6.00p.m., Monday to Friday, inclusive. Such hours shall be worked continuously except for meal breaks.
Provided that the spread of ordinary hours may be varied by genuine agreement between the employee and the employer or, following genuine consultation, by one week’s notice to the employee, of up to two hours before 6.00a.m. or two hours after 6.00p.m. on any one day. Provided that the employer will only vary the spread of hours to meet the normal operational requirements of the industry.
Provided that once a variation to the spread of hours has been made further variation must be preceded by agreement or by two weeks notice to the employee.
(c) Employees shall also be allowed five minutes dressing time before commencing or recommencing work.
(ii) Shift Work
(a) “Afternoon shift” shall mean any shift finishing after 6.00pm and at or before midnight.
“Night Shift” means any shift finishing subsequent to midnight and at or before 8.00am.
“Permanent Night Shift” means a night shift which does not rotate with another shift or shifts or day work.
(b) The ordinary hours of shift workers shall be fixed by mutual agreement between the employer and the employee concerned, but shall not exceed 80 hours in any period of two consecutive weeks, or 120 hours in any period of three consecutive weeks, or 160 hours in any period of four consecutive weeks.
Where the employees are working on shift work the ordinary working hours on any shift shall not exceed ten hours on any day; provided that, in any arrangement of ordinary working hours where the ordinary working hours are to exceed eight on any day, the arrangement of hours shall be subject to agreement between the employer, each individual employee and/or the majority of employees in the plant or work section or sections concerned.
(c) Shift workers shall be allowed a break of at least 20 minutes for the purposes of a crib, such time to be counted as time worked, but the crib shall be taken in such a way as not to interfere with work being carried on.
(d) The following shift loadings apply for shifts worked:
Afternoon shift – 15 per cent loading in addition to the ordinary rate of pay.
Night shift – 25 per cent loading in addition to the ordinary rate of pay.
Permanent Shift – 30 per cent loading in addition to the ordinary rate of pay.
