AN140088 – Credit Unions' Administrative and Clerical Officers' Award - State 2002
PART 6 - HOURS OF WORK, BREAKS, OVERTIME, SHIFTWORK, WEEKEND WORK
6.1 HOURS OF WORK
6.1.1 Except as may otherwise be mutually agreed upon between the employer and the Branch Secretary of the Australian Municipal, Administrative, Clerical and Services Union, Central and Southern Queensland Clerical and Administrative Branch, Union of Employees and/or the Secretary of the Federated Clerks' Union of Australia, North Queensland Branch, Union of Employees, and subject to the exceptions herein provided, the ordinary hours of work shall be an average of 37 per week, to be worked on one of the following basis:
(a) 37 hours within a work cycle not exceeding 7 consecutive days; or
(b) 75 hours within a work cycle not exceeding 14 consecutive days; or
(c) 112.5 hours within a work cycle not exceeding twenty-one consecutive days; or
(d) 150 hours within a work cycle not exceeding 28 consecutive days.
6.1.2 The ordinary hours of work in clause 6.1 may be worked on not more than 5 consecutive days in a week, Mondays to Saturdays inclusive, subject to the following:
(a) Except as otherwise specifically provided for in clause 6.1, ordinary hours may be worked between 7.00 a.m. and 6.30 p.m. Mondays to Fridays inclusive, and between 7.30 a.m. and 1.00 p.m. on Saturdays.
(b) Such spread of ordinary working hours may be altered as to all or a section of employees provided that there is agreement between the employer and the majority of employees involved.
(c) Any arrangements of hours which includes ordinary hours on a Saturday shall be subject to agreement between the employer and the majority of employees involved and no employee shall be required to work on more than 3 out of any 4 consecutive Saturdays. Such ordinary working hours on Saturday shall be paid for at one and a-quarter times the ordinary rate.
(d) The ordinary hours of work shall be worked continuously except for meal breaks and rest pauses. One hour shall be allowed for a meal break between:
(i) 11.30 a.m. and 2.30 p.m.; or
(ii) the 3rd and the 6th hour when late night trading is involved:
The meal break may be reduced to no less than 30 minutes by written agreement with the Industrial Organisation, and agreement on such reduction shall not be unreasonably withheld.
6.1.3 (a) The ordinary working hours of casual or part-time employees shall not exceed 8 on any one day.
(b) The ordinary hours of work prescribed in clause 6.1 for full-time employees shall not exceed ten hours on any day:
Provided that where the ordinary working hours are to exceed 8 on any day, the arrangement of hours shall be subject to the written agreement of the employer and the employee or the majority of employees involved.
6.1.4 Notwithstanding any other provisions of clause 6.1, where the arrangement of ordinary working hours provides for a rostered day off, the employer and the employee or the majority of employees involved may agree to accrue up to a maximum of 5 rostered days off. Where such agreement has been reached, the accrued rostered days off shall be taken within twelve calendar months of the date on which each rostered day off was accrued. Consent to accrue rostered days off shall not be unreasonably withheld by either party.
6.1.5 When the ordinary work cycle provides for a rostered day off, the rostered day off shall not fall on a public holiday, but shall be on the ordinary working day immediately before or immediately after the public holiday, or deferred in accordance with clause 6.1.4.
6.1.6 Different methods of implementing the 37 hour week may apply to individual employees, groups or sections of employees in the organisation concerned.
6.1.7 For credit union employees in any branch located in a retail complex trading to the public, and subject to the order fixing Trading Hours - Non-Exempt Shops Trading by Retail - State, engaged in late night trading on the day permitted for late night trading and in extended trading on Saturday, the spread of ordinary working hours may be the same as those prescribed by the awards for shop assistants for the time being in force in the respective divisions in respect of such establishment.
6.1.8 All employees involved shall be paid in addition to their ordinary rates of pay, a loading of 25% for work within ordinary hours performed after 6.30 p.m. on the day permitted for late night trading and on Saturday. No employees shall be requested to work on more than 3 late nights or Saturdays during any 4 week cycle.
