AN170088 – Retail Trades Award
(a) Other than Clerks
An employee engaged for more than half of one day on duties carrying a higher rate than the employee's ordinary classification shall be paid the higher rate for such day.
An employee engaged for less than half of one day on duties carrying a higher rate than the employee's ordinary classification shall be paid the higher rate for the time so worked, provided that the aggregate time so worked shall exceed 2 hours in any one week.
PROVIDED that this subclause shall only apply to persons employed as Retail Employees Grades 1 and 2 and junior employees.
PROVIDED ALWAYS that junior assistants shall receive the junior percentage of the higher rate.
(b) Clerks Only
Where an employee is called upon to perform 2 or more grades of work in any one day he shall for the purposes of assessing the wages to be paid, be deemed to have worked the whole day at the grade of work for which the highest rate of wages is prescribed.
An employee transferred to perform a grade of work for which a lesser rate of wage is prescribed than that at which he is usually employed shall not be paid at such lesser rate unless he is given a weeks' notice of such change of wage rate.
