AN120684 – Plumbers and Gasfitters (State) Consolidated Award
(i) Except as provided in clauses 5, Night Shift, 16, Living Away from Home - Distant Work, 22. Saturday and Sunday, and 23, Public Holidays, all time worked outside the ordinary working hours, as defined in clause 4, Hours, shall be paid at the rate of time and a half for the first two hours and double time thereafter.
(ii) An employee who is required to work overtime for at least one and one-half hours after the usual ceasing time shall be paid the sum as set out in Item 71 of Table 2 - Other Rates and Allowances, of Part B, Monetary Rates, as the cost of a meal.
(iii) (a) An employee working overtime shall be allowed a crib time of 20 minutes without deduction of pay after each four hours of overtime worked, if the employee continues work after such crib time: Provided that where a day worker on a five-day week is required to work overtime on a Saturday the first prescribed crib time shall, if occurring between 10 am and 1 pm be paid at ordinary rates.
(b) Unless the period of overtime is less than one and a half hours an employee before starting overtime after working ordinary hours shall be allowed a meal break of 20 minutes which shall be paid for at ordinary rates. An employer and employee may agree to any variation of this provision to meet the circumstances of the work in hand: provided that the employer shall not be required to make any payment in respect of any time allowed in excess of 20 minutes.
(iv) For work done during the agreed meal break, and thereafter until a meal break is allowed, time and a half rates shall be paid. An employee shall not be compelled to work for more than six hours without a meal break.
(v) When an employee works overtime and finishes work at a time when reasonable means of transport are not available the employer shall provide him/her with transport home or pay him/her his/her current wage for the time reasonably occupied in reaching his home.
(vi) (a) Rest Period After Overtime: When overtime is necessary it shall, wherever reasonable practicable, be so arranged that employees have at least ten consecutive hours off duty between the work of successive days.
(b) An employee who works so much overtime -
(i) Between the termination of his/her ordinary working day or shift, and the commencement of his/her ordinary work in the next day or shift that he/she has not had at least ten consecutive hours off duty between these times.
(ii) Or on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, not being ordinary working days or on rostered day off, without having had ten consecutive hours off duty in the 24 hours preceding his/her ordinary commencing time on his/her next ordinary day or shift, shall, subject to this subclause be released after completion of such overtime until he has had the hours off duty without loss of pay for ordinary working time occurring during such absence.
(iii) An employee who has worked continuously (except for meal and crib times allowed by this award) for 20 hours shall not be required to continue at or recommence work for at least 12 hours.
(c) If on the instructions of his/her employer such an employee resumes or continues his/her work without having had ten consecutive hours off duty he shall be paid at double rates until he/she is released from duty for such a period, and he/she shall then be entitled to be absent until he/she has had ten consecutive hours off duty without loss of pay for ordinary working time occurring during such absence.
(vii) (a) Call Back: An employee recalled to work overtime after leaving his/her employer's business premises (whether notified before or after leaving the premises) shall be paid for a minimum of three hours' work at the appropriate rate for each time he /she is so recalled:
provided that, except in the case of unforeseen circumstances arising, the employee shall not be required to work the full three hours if the job he/she was recalled to perform is completed within a shorter period. This subclause shall not apply in cases where it is customary for an employee to return to his/her employer's premises to perform a specific job outside his ordinary working hours or where the overtime is continuous (subject to a reasonable meal break) with the completion or commencement of ordinary working time.
(b) Overtime worked in the circumstances specified in this subclause shall not be regarded as overtime for the purposes of subclause (vi) of this clause, where the actual time worked is less than three hours on such recall or on each of such recalls.
(c) Should the employee be required to work in excess of four hours he/she shall be paid a meal allowance as set out in the said Item 71 and allowed a crib time of 20 minutes without deduction of pay at the end of each four hours work provided work is to continue after the said period of four hours.
(viii) The assignment of overtime by an employer to an employee shall be based on special work requirements and the practice of "one in, all in" overtime shall not apply.
