AP765516 - Airline Operations (Qantas Airways Limited) Award 1999
26.1 Payment for working overtime
26.1.1 Day work: Subject to 25.6 and 26.5, all time worked outside agreed ordinary hours must be paid for at the rate of time and a half for the first two hours and double time after that.
26.1.2 Shift work: All time worked outside ordinary hours must be paid for at the rate of double time unless:
26.1.2(a) the time is worked by arrangement between the employees themselves; or
26.1.2(b) the time is worked for the purpose of effecting the customary rotation of shifts; or
26.1.2(c) the time is worked because a relief worker does not come on duty at the proper time and the relief worker did not give the Company at least eight hours notice of his or her intended absence from work;
26.1.2(d) the employee works make up time in accordance with 25.6 or takes time in lieu in accordance with 26.5.
26.1.3 Provided that when not less than eight hours' notice has been given to the Company by the relief person that he or she will be absent from work and the employee who should be relieved is not relieved, the unrelieved employee must be paid at the rate of double time until relieved.
26.2 Each day's overtime stands alone
In computing overtime, each day's work stands alone.
26.3 Recall to duty
26.3.1 If an employee is recalled to work overtime (whether notified before or after leaving the Company's premises) the employee must be paid a minimum of four hours at the appropriate rate for each recall.
26.3.2 If the employee works for more than four hours, the employee must be paid for the period actually worked.
26.3.3 This clause does not apply if the overtime is continuous (subject to a meal break) with the completion or commencement of ordinary time.
26.4 Stand-by
26.4.1 If an employee is required by the Company to be on stand-by for work after ordinary hours, the employee must be paid standing-by time at ordinary rates from the time the employee is told he or she is on stand-by until released.
26.4.2 This clause does not apply to an employee who by custom is regularly required to hold himself or herself in readiness for a call back.
26.5 Time in lieu of payment for overtime
26.5.1 Despite 26.1 an employee may choose, with the consent of the Company, to take time off instead of payment for the overtime at a time or times agreed with the Company. The agreement must be in writing. The employee must take the time off within four weeks of working the overtime.
26.5.2 If an employee takes time off instead of payment for overtime then the amount of time off is to be equivalent to the pay the employee would have otherwise received for working the overtime.
26.5.3 If requested by an employee the Company must within one week of receiving the request pay the employee for any overtime worked. The overtime must be paid at overtime rates.
