AN120505 – Social and Community Services Employees (State) Award
18.1 A meal break of not less than thirty minutes shall be allowed each day, for lunch and/or dinner. No employee should be required to work more than five hours continuously without a meal break, but where they do, with the authorisation of the employer, any time worked in excess of five hours shall be paid for at the overtime rates set out in Clause 12.2 - Overtime until such time as the employee receives a meal break.
18.2 Nothing in this clause should be deemed to mean that an employee would be deprived of, nor deprive themselves of a meal break, simply because of pressure of general work.
18.3 Where an employee is required to have their meal on the premises, including to have a meal with clients, that time shall be paid and 18.1 does not apply.
