AN160140 – Gate, Fence and Frames Manufacturing Award

8. - SHIFT WORK

(1) The provisions of this clause apply to shift work whether continuous or otherwise.

(2) An employer may work the establishment on shifts but before doing so shall give notice of the intention to the union or unions concerned and of the intended starting and finishing times of ordinary working hours of the respective shifts.

(3) (a) Where any particular process is carried out on shifts other than day shift, and less than five consecutive afternoon or five consecutive night shifts are worked on that process, then employee employed on such afternoon or night shifts shall be paid at overtime rates.

Provided that where the ordinary hours of work normally worked in any establishment are worked on less than five days then the provisions of paragraph (a) of this subclause shall be as if that number of consecutive shifts were substituted for five consecutive shifts.

(b) The sequence of work shall not be deemed to be broken under the preceding paragraph by reason of the fact that work on the process is not carried out on a Saturday or Sunday or on any other day that the employer observes a shut down for the purpose of allowing a 38 hour week or on any holiday.

(4) Where a shift commences at or after 11.00 p.m. on any day, the whole of that shift shall be deemed, for the purposes of this award, to have been worked on the following day.

(5) A shift employee when on afternoon or night shift shall be paid, for such shift fifteen per cent more than the employee's ordinary rate prescribed by this award.

(6) (a) All work performed during a rostered shift, when the major portion of such shift falls on a Saturday, Sunday or a holiday, shall be paid for as follows -

Saturday	-	at the rate of time and one half.
Sunday	-	at the rate of time and three quarters.
Holidays	-	at the rate of double time.

(b) These rates shall be paid in lieu of the shift allowances prescribed in subclause (5) of this clause.

(7) A continuous shift employee who is not required to work on a holiday which falls on the employee's rostered day off shall be allowed a day's leave with pay to be added to annual leave or taken at some other time if the employee so agrees.