AN120684 – Plumbers and Gasfitters (State) Consolidated Award
(i) Except as provided elsewhere in this award, the ordinary working hours shall be 38 per week worked in accord with the following provisions for a four week work cycle:
(a) The ordinary working hours shall be worked as a 19 day four week cycle of eight hours each on Monday to Friday inclusive, between the hours of 7.30 a.m. and 5.00 p.m., provided that, by agreement between the employer and his employees the working day may begin at 6.00 a.m. or at any time between that hour and 8.00 a.m. and the working time shall then begin to run from the time so fixed with a 0.4 of one hour of each day worked accruing as an entitlement to take a leisure day in each cycle as a day off paid for as though worked:
(1) By fixing the fourth Monday as a leisure day on which all employees will be off duty during a particular work cycle; or
(2) By rostering employees off work on the preceding Friday or the Monday following the fixed leisure day during a particular work cycle so that each employee has one regular leisure day during that cycle.
Provided, that, in the service industry by agreement in writing between an employer and his/her employees an alternate day in the four week cycle may be substituted for the fourth Monday as the day off paid as though worked, and where such agreement is reached all provisions of this award shall apply as if such day was the prescribed fourth Monday.
(b) Where such fourth Monday or agreed rostered day prescribed by subparagraph (1) of paragraph (a) of this subclause falls on a public holiday as prescribed in clause 23, Public Holidays (or in respect of an apprentice on a day on which the apprentice is required to attend technical college or registered training organisation), the next working day shall be taken in lieu of the rostered day off unless an alternative day in that four-week cycle or the next, is agreed in writing between the employer and the employees.
(c) Each day of paid leave taken and any public holiday occurring during any cycle of four weeks shall be regarded as a day worked for accrual purposes.
(d) An employee who has not worked, or is not regarded by reason of paragraph (c) of this subclause as having worked a complete 19 day four week cycle, shall receive pro rata accrued entitlements for each day worked or regarded as having been worked in such cycle payable for the rostered day off or, in the case of termination of employment, on termination.
(e) The accrued rostered day prescribed in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this subclause shall be taken as a paid day off; provided that the day may be worked where that is required by the employer and such work is necessary to allow other employees to be employed productively or to carry out out of hours maintenance or because of unforeseen delays to a particular project or a section of it or for other reasons arising from unforeseen or emergency circumstances on a project, in which case, in addition to the accrued entitlement employees shall be paid penalty rates and provisions as prescribed for Saturday work in clause 22, Saturday and Sunday.
(f) There will be a cessation of work and of working time for the purpose of a meal on each day of not less than 30 minutes, to be taken between noon and 1.00 pm.
(ii) There shall be allowed, without deduction of pay, a rest period of ten minutes between 9.00 a.m. and 11.00 a.m., or at such earlier time as may be mutually agreed upon.
