AN160214 – Mineral Sands Mining and Processing Industry Award 1981
(1) The provisions of this clause apply to shift work whether continuous or otherwise.
(2) From 20 December 1989 a shift employee shall, in addition to his/her ordinary rate, be paid per shift of eight hours at the rate of $6.65 when on afternoon or night shift.
(3) (a) A shift employee (other than a continuous shift employee) who does not work at least one week on day shift of each consecutive three weeks, shall be paid for each shift other than day shift, at the rate of time and one quarter. Provided that if he is required to work for more than one week consecutively on afternoon shift, or for more than one week consecutively on night shift, such an employee shall be paid at the rate of time and one quarter for each shift other than day shift in the consecutive second and subsequent week of afternoon or night shift.
(b) An employee employed on continuous shift work who does not, in the course of twenty eight days over which the cycle is spread, work at least one third of his time on day shift, shall be paid at the rate of time and a half for each afternoon or night shift workerd by him in that twenty eight days. Provided that such provision shall only apply to his ordinary hours. Further provided that if he is required to work for more than one week consecutively on afternoon shift, or for more than one week consecutively on night shift, such an employee shall be paid at the rate of time and one quarter for each shift other than day shift in the consecutive second and subsequent weeks of afternoon shift or of night shift. The provisions of this subclause shall not apply to any roster which is agreed upon between the employees and the employer and ratified by the union.
(c) This subclause shall not apply to employees employed on what is known as the Great Boulder Roster, or accepted variations thereof, nor to employees to whom this subclause would otherwise apply because of a change of shift due to a private arrangement with another employee, nor to employees (known as "rostered relief employees"), regularly employed on continuous process work who are required to work shifts to enable other employees engaged on such work to change shifts weekely and to have their days off, if such rostered relief employee is not required to wrok more night shifts or more afternoon shifts than the number of day shifts worked by him.
(4) (a) Where any particular process is carried out on shifts other than day shifts, and less than five consecutive afternoon or five consecutive night shifts are worked on that process, then employees employed on such afternoon or night shifts shall be paid at overtime rates.
(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 public holiday.
(5) (a) An employee who replaces a regular shift employee who is absent for any reason beyond the control of the employer, on afternoon or night shift, shall be paid at the rate of time and one quarter if he does not work for five consecutive shifts (other than day shift) and the appropriate shift work rate if he works five or more of such shifts consecutively.
(b) An employee who replaces on afternoon or night shift, a regular shift employee who is absent by reason of a direction of the employer, shall be paid at overtime rates unless he works the number of consecutive shifts prescribed in the next preceding paragraph.
(c) The sequence of consecutive shifts shall not be deemed to be broken under paragraph (a) by reason of rostered days off in respect to employees employed on continuous process work or by a Saturday or Sunday in respect to other employees or by any public holiday or any other reason beyond the control of the employer.
