AN160331 – Watchmakers' and Jewellers' Award 1970
(1) Subject to the provisions of subclause (2) of this clause an employee, required to work overtime for more than two hours, shall be supplied with a meal by the employer or be paid $7.65 for a meal and, if owing to the amount of overtime worked, a second or subsequent meal is required the employee shall be supplied with such meal by the employer or paid $5.30 for each meal so required.
(2) The provisions of subclause (1) of this subclause do not apply:
(a) in respect of any period of overtime for which the employee has been notified on the previous day or earlier that he/she will be required; or
(b) to any employee who lives in the locality in which the place of work is situated in respect of any meal for which he/she can reasonably go home.
(3) If an employee to whom paragraph (a) of subclause (2) of this clause applies has, as a consequence of the notification referred to in that paragraph, provided himself with a meal or meals and is not required to work overtime or is required to work less overtime than the period notified, he shall be paid, for each meal provided and not required, the appropriate amount prescribed in subclause (1) of this clause.
(4) Late Night Trading Meal Allowance:
An employee who commences work prior to 4.30 p.m. on the day of late night trading and is required to work beyond 7.00 p.m. on that day, shall be paid a meal allowance of $7.65.
