AN170028 – Electrical/Electronic Trades (Public Sector) Award
(a) For all time worked outside ordinary hours the rates of pay shall be time and a half for the first 2 hours and double time thereafter, such double time to continue until the completion of the overtime work.
Except as provided in this subclause or subclause (b) hereof in computing overtime each day's work shall stand alone.
(b) Rest Period after Overtime
Where overtime work is necessary it shall wherever reasonably practicable be so arranged that employees have at least 10 consecutive hours off duty between the work of the successive days; providing however that should the period of overtime worked exceed 8 consecutive hours an employee shall, following the completion of such overtime, be entitled to a rest period of consecutive hours at least equal to the number of consecutive overtime hours worked, without loss of pay for ordinary working time occurring during such absences. If, on the instruction of the employer or the employer's representative the employee resumes or continues to work without having had such rest period he or she shall be paid at double rates until released from duty for such period and the employee shall then be entitled to be absent until he or she has had such credit rest period without loss of pay for ordinary time occurring during such absence.
(c) Call Back
An employee recalled to work overtime after leaving the employer's business premises (whether notified before or after leaving the premises), shall be paid for a minimum of 3 hours work at the appropriate rate for each time the employee is so recalled; providing that, except in the case of unforeseen circumstances arising, the employee shall not be required to work the full 3 hours if the job the employee is recalled to perform is completed within a shorter period.
This subclause shall not apply in cases where it is customary for an employee to return to the employer's premises to perform a specific job outside the employee's ordinary working hours, or where the overtime is continuous (subject to a reasonable meal break), with the completion or commencement of ordinary working time.
An employee who is recalled to work shall either be provided with transport by the employer or the employer shall defray the reasonable cost of the employee reporting for work and returning home.
(d) Saturday Work
Employees required to work overtime on a Saturday shall be afforded at least 4 hours work or paid for 4 hours at the appropriate rate except where such overtime is continuous with overtime commenced on the day previous.
(e) Standing By
Subject to any custom now prevailing under which employees are required regularly to hold themselves in readiness for a call back, employees required to hold themselves in readiness to work after ordinary hours shall, until released, be paid standing by time at ordinary rates from the time from which the employee is so to hold themselves in readiness.
(f) Meal Hours - General
For work done during meal hours and thereafter until a meal break is allowed time and a half rates shall be paid. An employee shall not be compelled to work for more than 5 hours without a break for a meal.
(g) Crib Time
An employee working overtime shall be allowed a crib time of 20 minutes without deduction of pay after each 4 hours of overtime worked if the employee continues work after such crib time.
Unless the period of overtime is less than one and a half hours, an employee, before starting overtime after working ordinary hours, shall be allowed a meal break of 20 minutes, which shall be paid for at ordinary rates.
The employer and employees may agree to any variation of this provision to meet the circumstances of the work in hand, provided that the employer shall not be required to make any payment in respect of any time allowed in excess of 20 minutes.
(h) Meal Allowances
Employees required to work overtime for more than 2 hours without being notified on the previous day or earlier that they will be so required to work, shall either be supplied with a meal by the employer or paid $4.80 for the first meal, $4.80 for the second meal and $4.80 for each subsequent meal; but such payment need not be made to employees living in the same locality as their workshops who can reasonably return home for meals.
Unless the employer advises an employee on the previous day or earlier that the amount of overtime to be worked will necessitate the partaking of a second or subsequent meal (as the case may be), the employer shall provide such second and/or subsequent meals or make payment in lieu thereof as above prescribed.
If an employee pursuant to notice, has provided a meal or meals and is not required to work overtime or is required to work less than the amount advised, the employee shall be paid as above prescribed for meals which he or she has provided but which are surplus.
(i) Transport of Employees
Where employees, after having worked overtime or a shift for which they have not been regularly rostered, finish work at a time when reasonable means of transport are not available, the employer shall provide them with a conveyance to their home or pay them their current wage for the time reasonably occupied in reaching their home.
(j) Requirement to Work Reasonable Overtime
The employer may require any employee to work reasonable overtime at overtime rates and such employee shall work overtime in accordance with such requirement.
(k) The assignment of overtime by the employer to an employee shall be based on specific work requirements; the practice of "one-in, all- in" overtime shall not apply.
