AP777903 - Crisis Assistance Supported Housing (Queensland) Award 1999
11.1 A part-time employee means an employee other than a casual, who is engaged to work regularly for less than an average of 38 ordinary hours per week.
11.2 The ordinary hours for part-time employees shall be within the ordinary span of hours defined in clause 27 – Hours of work, of this award.
11.3 A part-time employee shall work the hours prescribed in their contract of employment provided that by mutual agreement between the employer and employee, a part-time employee’s hours of ordinary duty may be temporarily varied up to 38 hours per week provided that the hours worked fall within the definition of ordinary hours defined in clause 27 – Hours of work.
11.4 Any additional hours temporarily worked by a part-time employee shall not affect their status as a part-time employee.
11.5 Any permanent reduction in the number of hours may only be made in accordance with the provision of 17.2.
11.6 For ordinary working hours, a part-time employee shall be paid at a rate equal to one-thirty-eighth of the appropriate weekly rate prescribed in clause 20 – Wages, with an entitlement to weekly employment entitlement on a proportional basis.
11.7 Where a part-time employee’s hours are temporarily increased to the hours of a full-time employee, such employee shall receive all benefits prescribed in this award for a full-time employee for the period so worked.
