AN120221 – Funeral Industries (State) Award 2005
(i) All employees shall be paid in accordance with the following provisions:
(a) Time and One-Half
(1) Monday to Friday, inclusive, for all time worked in excess of the ordinary hours of work between 7.00 a.m. and the ordinary commencing time and for the first two hours after the ordinary ceasing time.
(2) Saturday for the first two hours worked in excess of the ordinary hours of work and double time thereafter.
(3) On Saturday for all time worked by Resident Managers and Relieving Managers on their Saturday on duty in excess of the ordinary rostered hours of work between 7.00 a.m. and 6.00 p.m.; provided that for all funeral, removal or delivery work by Resident Managers, Relieving Managers, Non-Resident Officers and Duty Officers, during their ordinary rostered hours on duty on a Saturday one-half time in addition to their ordinary pay shall be paid.
(4) All engagements for funeral work on Saturday shall commence not later than 10.00 a.m.
(b) Double Time
(1) Sunday for all time worked between 7.00 a.m. and 10.00 p.m.
(2) Monday to Friday, inclusive, for all time worked two hours after the ordinary ceasing time.
(3) Saturday for all time worked from midnight Friday to 7.00 a.m. Saturday on all work and after the first two hours of work on a Saturday morning, for hours in excess of ordinary hours as prescribed by this award.
(c) Double Time and One-Half
(1) For all time worked between 7.00 a.m. and 10.00 p.m. on holidays.
(2) For all time worked between midnight Saturday and 7.00 a.m. on Sunday.
(3) For all time worked between 10.00 p.m. and midnight on a Sunday.
(4) For all time worked during an employee's ordinary rostered hours of work on a holiday shall be paid for at the rate of double time and one-half in addition to the ordinary weekly wage.
(d) Treble Time
(1) For all time worked between the hours of midnight and 7.00 a.m. on a holiday.
(2) For all time worked between 10.00 p.m. and midnight on a holiday.
(ii)
(a) An employee called upon to work overtime within paragraphs (b), double time, and (c), double time and one-half and (d), treble time, of subclause (i) of this clause, shall, if he/she works less than two hours, be paid for a minimum of two hours' work at the appropriate rates.
(b) An employee shall, in relation to all functions of his or her classification, make himself or herself available to work reasonable overtime to meet the needs of the employer having regard to the nature of the industry.
(c) An employee engaged on Saturday morning for funeral work shall be paid for a minimum of four hours at the appropriate rate. Such an employee may be required to perform mixed functions or any of the duties of his or her classification, during such four-hour period.
(d) For the purposes of the performance of overtime work on Saturday mornings the employees located at an establishment of an employer shall arrange a roster amongst themselves to ensure that the minimum requisite number of employees required by the employer on such occasions shall be available for each Saturday if such overtime eventuates.
(iii) Each day shall be deemed to commence at midnight and finish at midnight.
(iv) In computing overtime the rate shall be calculated on the basis of 30 minutes so that any portion of one half hour being less than one half hour shall be reckoned as thirty minutes.
(v) An employee, recalled to work overtime in accordance with subclause (i) of this clause, after leaving his/her employer's premises, whether notified before or after leaving the employer's premises, shall be paid for a minimum of two hours at the appropriate overtime rate for each time he/she is so recalled.
(vi) When an employee is requested and does so to hold himself or herself in readiness for a call for work after ordinary hours he/she shall be paid as set out in Item 6 of Table 2, Monday to Friday, as set out in Item 7 of Table 2, Saturday and Sunday, and for all days mentioned in subclause (i) of Clause 17 - Holidays, of this award as set in Item 8 of Table 2.
(vii) Any employee or person employed or engaged to look after a head office or premises of a funeral director and the business connected therewith shall be granted the same conditions and overtime rates as those provided for Resident Managers or Arranging Officers excepting as provided for in subclauses (iv) and (vi) of Clause 5 - Wages, of this award.
(viii) When an employee is working overtime which terminates at a time when his/her usual means of transport to his/her place of residence is not available the employer shall provide him/her with suitable transport, free of charge.
(ix)
(a) A Resident Manager and Resident Arranging Officer shall not be entitled to overtime rates for time spent in his/her branch or in arranging funerals connected with his/her branch outside his/her ordinary working hours.
(b) A Resident Manager may be required to be in attendance at head office or to relieve at the branch of another resident manager on the latter's fixed weekly day off duty up to 11.00 p.m. on not more than one day in any one week without payment of overtime; provided that employees covered by Clause 33, Interchange of Employees, may be required to be in attendance at the premises of an associate company; provided that a resident manager on such occasions shall be paid one hour's travelling time at ordinary rates.
(c) A Resident Manager who is called away from his/her branch outside his/her ordinary working hours to do any work not connected with his/her branch (except in the circumstances referred to in paragraph (b) of this clause), or having attended head office or relieved another Resident Manager up to 11.00 p.m. as provided in paragraph (b) of this clause, is then required to remain after that time or carries out any removal or delivery outside his/her ordinary hours whether connected with his/her branch or otherwise shall be paid overtime at the appropriate rates for all time so occupied.
