AN140166 – Meat Industry (Other Than Export) Award - State 2002

PART 6 - HOURS OF WORK, BREAKS, OVERTIME, SHIFT WORK, WEEKEND WORK 

6.1 HOURS OF WORK

6.1.1 The ordinary working hours for employees shall be an average of 38 per week to be worked on one of the following basis:

(a) 38 hours within a work cycle not exceeding 7 consecutive days; or

(b) 76 hours within a work cycle not exceeding 14 consecutive days; or

(c) 114 hours within a work cycle not exceeding 21 consecutive days; or

(d) 152 hours within a work cycle not exceeding 28 consecutive days.

6.1.2 Ordinary hours may be worked on 5 days of the week on Monday to Saturday inclusive but any such ordinary hours worked between 6.00 a.m. and noon on a Saturday shall be paid for at the rate of time and one-quarter, between 5.30 p.m. and 9.00 p.m. on a designated late night shopping night at the rate of time and one-quarter, and on Saturday between noon and 6.00 p.m. at the rate of time and one-half.

6.1.3 No time worked before 6.00 a.m. or after 6.00 p.m. on Monday to Saturday inclusive or after 9.00 p.m. on the designated late night shopping night in retail butcher shops, or before 6.00 a.m. or after 6.00 p.m. in smallgoods factories and in country slaughter-houses, shall be reckoned as part of the ordinary hours prescribed in clauses 6.1.1 and 6.1.2.

6.1.4 No time worked on a Sunday shall be reckoned as part of the ordinary hours prescribed in clauses 6.1.1 and 6.1.2.

6.1.5 Ordinary working hours shall be unbroken except by prescribed meal intervals.

6.1.6 No daily period of work shall exceed 8 hours in duration exclusive of meal breaks prescribed in clause 6.5.1.

6.1.7 Subject to clause 6.1, the employer shall, for any employee/s, fix each day's starting and finishing times of ordinary hours of work (inclusive of special starting and finishing times for any day next preceding a public holiday):

Provided that the employer shall state such times in advance in a notice which shall be permanently posted in the establishment so as to be at all times accessible and visible to the employees concerned.

The employer may from time to time substitute other starting and finishing times if, not less than 7 days in advance of the substituted times, the employer states such times in a notice posted so as to be visible at all times to the employees concerned together with the immediately previous notice concerning such times.

Every fixation of starting and finishing times shall be made in respect of a period which shall not be less than 7 days in length.