Australia Post General Conditions of Employment Award 1999
AP766597 - Australia Post General Conditions of Employment Award 1999
24.1.1 Ordinary Duty Between 6 p.m. and 6.30 a.m.
An employee who is rostered to perform and performs ordinary duty on a shift, any part of which falls between the hours of 6 p.m. and 6.30 a.m., will be paid an additional 15% of salary for that shift.
24.1.2 Ordinary Duty Wholly Between 6 p.m. and 8 a.m.
A full-time employee, who is required to work ordinary hours continuously for a period exceeding 4 weeks on a shift falling wholly within the hours of 6pm and 8am, shall be paid an additional 30% of salary for that shift.
24.1.3 Part-time Employees
A part-time employee who is required to work ordinary hours for a period exceeding 4 weeks on a shift falling wholly within the hours of 9.00pm and 6.30am, shall be paid an additional 30% of salary for that shift.
24.1.4 Saturday Ordinary Duty
For all rostered time of ordinary duty performed between midnight on Friday and midnight on Saturday, an employee shall be paid at the rate of 50% additional to the ordinary rate of pay.
24.1.5 Sunday Ordinary Duty
For all rostered time of ordinary duty performed between midnight on Saturday and midnight on Sunday, an employee shall be paid at the rate of single time additional to the ordinary rate of pay.
24.1.6 Public Holiday Duty
Subject to this clause, for duty which is not in excess of the prescribed weekly hours on a day which is a public holiday in accordance with clause 31 - Public Holidays, an employee shall be paid an extra payment at the rate of time and a half for the actual time worked on the holiday. However, except with the approval of Australia Post, an employee being paid at a level of Administrative Officer Level 6 or Postal Manager Grade 3 is not eligible for payment under this paragraph other than for rostered duty.
The additional payments prescribed by this clause will not be taken into account in the computation of overtime or in the determination of any allowance based upon salary, nor will they be paid with respect to any shift for which any other form of penalty payment is made under this award.
24.3 Payment During Training Courses
Shift penalties prescribed by 24.1 will be paid during attendance at a management initiated training course or a training course conducted in accordance with the Australia Post Occupational Health and Safety Agreement for any shifts which an employee would have performed but for attendance at the course.
24.4 Payment During Annual Leave
Shift penalty payments will be made in respect of any duty (other than on Public Holidays) which an employee would have performed had the employee not been on approved annual leave, subject to the conditions specified in 24.9 Leave Loading.
24.5 Exchange Of Shifts / Substitute Employee
24.5.1 Exchange of Shifts
An employee is allowed to exchange duties or shifts or days off, or to perform duty for another employee, with the approval of the manager.
24.5.2 Substitute Employee
An employee who has conscientious scruples against attending for duty on a day of religious observance may apply for permission to furnish a substitute employee.
24.6.1 Employees whose ordinary hours of duty, broken or unbroken, exceeds 10 hours in the case of Mail Officers, or 12 hours in the case of other employees shall be paid at ordinary rates of pay, in addition to salary, (but not in addition to overtime) for all time actually worked beyond the said period of 10 or 12 hours as the case may be.
24.6.2 Provided that in cases where Postal Delivery Officers begin work before 6am and their stretch of shift exceeds 11 hours, the additional payment shall be made in respect of all time actually worked in excess of the said 11hours.
24.7.1 Shifts shall be arranged so that an employee has a minimum break of 10 hours continuously off duty between shifts:
24.7.2 Provided that this clause will not operate in cases of emergency certified by the officer-in-charge and notified to the employees concerned by posting up the same in some convenient place, nor in cases of regular change over of shifts.
24.8.1 Minimum Payment
The minimum extra payment payable for ordinary duty on a public holiday for each separate attendance will be for four hours. The exceptions to this are where employees are in any restriction situation, when the minimum extra payment will be for 3 hours; or where employees are part-time and the prescribed normal hours of duty for that day are less than 4 hours, in which case the minimum extra payment is the prescribed hours. Where more than one attendance is involved, the minimum payment provisions payable under this clause will not exceed the amount that would have been payable if the employee had remained on duty from the commencing time of duty on the previous attendance to the ceasing time of duty on a subsequent attendance.
24.8.1(a) For the purposes of 24.8.1:
24.8.1(a)(i) duty broken by a meal period shall not constitute more than one attendance; and
24.8.1(a)(ii) the minimum extra payment shall not be applicable to holiday ordinary duty which, disregarding meal periods, is continuous with ordinary duty occurring on the day preceding or on the day succeeding the holiday.
24.8.2 Day Off Instead of Holiday
A seven day shift worker who is rostered off duty on a public holiday will be granted a day's leave in lieu of that holiday within one month, if practicable, after the holiday or paid one day’s pay at ordinary rates.
24.8.3 Christmas and Substitute Holiday
Where 25 December falls on a Saturday or Sunday and another day is provided as a substitute holiday under the provisions of 31.2.1, an employee who works on both 25 December and the substitute day will only be paid at the holiday rate for duty on 25 December. The payment for duty on the substitute day will be in accordance with Clause 24.1.4 - Saturday Ordinary Duty, 24.1.5 - Sunday Ordinary Duty or 22.1 Overtime - General Conditions, as appropriate.
