AN170010 – Building and Construction Industry Award
(a) Tradespersons and Labourers
Except as provided in subclause (b) hereof, an employee engaged for more than two hours during one day on duties carrying a higher rate than the employees ordinary classification shall be paid the higher rate for the whole day. Otherwise the employee shall be paid the higher rate for the time so worked.
(b) Conditions for Carpenter-Divers
(i) If called upon to work as a diver in the period before the daily meal break the employee shall receive a minimum payment for three hours as a carpenter-diver.
(ii) If called upon to dive after the midday meal break the employee shall be paid as a carpenter-diver for the time during which the employee works as such or for three hours whichever is the greater.
(iii) If called upon to work as carpenter-diver in the period before the daily meal break and after the daily meal break on the same day the employee shall be paid for a whole day including accrued time as a carpenter-diver. For any other work on a day during a period which the employee is not paid as a carpenter-diver the employee shall be entitled to receive the rates for a bridge and wharf carpenter.
(iv) PROVIDED that a diver returned to work at depths of 12 metres or over shall be paid a minimum of one day's pay at the diver's rate, including accrued time.
(c) Plant Operators
An employee engaged during one day on duties carrying a higher rate than the employee’s ordinary classification shall be paid the higher rate for the whole day.
