AN170088 – Retail Trades Award
(a) Nightfill Employees
(i) Employees required to work for 4 hours or more on any day shall be granted one 5 minute rest period to be taken no earlier than one hour after the commencement of work and no later than 3 hours after the commencement of work.
(ii) An employee required to work for 6 hours or more on any day shall be allowed an additional 5 minute rest period after not less than 6 hours and before the completion of 7 hours from the commencement of work.
(iii) All rest periods shall be counted as time worked.
PROVIDED that an employer may elect to amalgamate the breaks prescribed in (i) and (ii) above to be taken together thereby giving one ten minute break or may amalgamate both breaks with the meal break prescribed in Clause 20 - Hours of Work, subclause 2(d) - thereby giving one break of thirty minutes.
(b) All Others
Employees who work for 4 hours or more on any day shall be granted one 10 minute rest period. Provided that no rest period shall apply on Saturday morning.
If the work period includes a meal break, the rest period it to be granted in that portion of the work period which is the greater or where such work periods are of equal duration, the rest period of 10 minutes shall be given at a time to be mutually agreed upon.
PROVIDED that employees who work for 6 hours or more on any day shall be granted two 10 minute rest periods, one during the period of work before and one during the period of work after the meal break. All rest period shall be counted as time worked.
