AN140205 – Pest Control Industry Award - State 2003
6.4.1 All time worked before or after the ordinary starting and ceasing times or outside the ordinary working hours or in excess of 38 hours per week shall be deemed to be overtime.
6.4.2 All overtime shall be paid for at one and a-half times the ordinary time rate of pay for the first 3 hours, after which double time shall be paid:
Provided that an employee called upon to work overtime commencing on Saturday shall be paid at one and a-half times the ordinary time rate of pay for the first 3 hours and double time thereafter, with a minimum of 2 hours' work or payment therefore.
6.4.3 All time worked on Sundays shall be deemed to be overtime and shall be paid for at the rate of double time, with a minimum of 2 hours' work or payment therefore.
6.4.4 All work performed during the ordinary meal break prescribed in clause 6.2 shall be paid for at the rate of double time and the rate of double time shall continue to be paid until the meal break is taken, for which no deduction of pay shall be made.
6.4.5 When working overtime for more than 2 hours after the ordinary ceasing time, 30 minutes shall be allowed for a meal break for which no deduction of pay shall be made. An employee who is required to work a further period of 4 hours after having been given such a meal break shall be allowed a further break of 30 minutes after each further 4 hours of work, for which no deduction of pay shall be made.
6.4.6 An employee called upon to work overtime for more than 2 hours after the ordinary ceasing time shall be paid an allowance of $9.60 for a meal or shall be supplied by the employer with a reasonable meal in lieu of such payment in respect of each meal break allowed during such overtime as provided for in clause 6.4.5.
6.4.7 In the event of the employee having provided themselves with one or more meals as a result of previously being notified that the employee is required to work overtime after the ordinary ceasing time and such overtime is not then worked, the employee shall be paid the $9.60 meal allowance as provided in clause 6.4.6 for each meal so provided.
6.4.8 Any employee who works so much overtime between the termination of the employee's ordinary work on one day and the commencement of the employee's ordinary work on the next day that the employee has not had at least 10 consecutive hours off duty between those times shall, subject to clause 6.4.8, be released after the completion of such overtime until the employee has had 10 consecutive hours off duty without loss of pay for ordinary working time occurring during such absence. If on the instructions of the employer such an employee resumes or continues work without having had such 10 consecutive hours off duty, the employee shall be paid double rates until the employee is released from duty for such period and the employee shall then be entitled to be absent until the employee has had 10 consecutive hours off duty without loss of pay for ordinary working time occurring during such absence:
Provided that where an employee is recalled to work overtime and actually works not more than 3 hours' overtime clause 6.4.8 shall not apply.
6.4.9 An employee recalled to work shall either be provided with a minimum of 2 hours' work or shall be paid for 2 hours' work at the appropriate rate in respect of each such recall.
