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AP797062 - Student Union Employees Core Conditions Award 1997

4.3 OVERTIME

4.3.1 All authorised time worked in excess of or outside of the ordinary hours of duty prescribed by clause 4.1 shall be overtime and shall be paid for in accordance with this clause.

4.3.2 Where the ordinary hours of duty are fixed, each day's work shall stand alone in computing overtime and overtime rates shall apply to all time worked in excess of or outside of the fixed hours.

4.3.3 Where daily ordinary hours of duty are flexible the total hours worked in a work cycle as defined in clause 4.1 shall be computed and overtime rates shall apply to all time worked in excess of the ordinary hours of duty prescribed for the work cycle.

4.3.4 Any period of overtime which is continuous with ordinary duty and which extends beyond midnight shall be deemed to have been performed on the day the overtime commenced.

4.3.5 Where overtime is not continuous with ordinary duty and involves duty before and after midnight, the overtime shall be deemed to have been worked on the day for which the higher rate is payable.

4.3.6 Overtime shall be calculated to the nearest quarter of an hour of the total amount of overtime worked in a work cycle.

4.3.7 An employee in receipt of a salary in excess of that prescribed for the top sub-division of SUE 7 shall not be eligible to receive payment for overtime but shall be allowed time off equivalent to the period of overtime worked.

4.3.8 The salary of an employee for the purposes of computation of overtime shall not include shift work allowances or the casual loading prescribed by clause 2.3 but shall include higher duties allowance and any other allowance in the nature of salary.

4.3.9 Subject to clause 4.4.11 the following rates shall apply in respect of overtime:

(i) for overtime worked Monday to Saturday inclusive - ordinary rate plus 50% for the first 3 hours and ordinary rate plus 100% thereafter; and

(ii) for overtime worked on Sunday - ordinary rate plus 100%.

4.3.10 An employee in receipt of a salary not exceeding that prescribed for the top sub-division of SUE 7 may, by mutual agreement reached prior to overtime being worked, take time off in lieu of overtime payment such time off being calculated in the same manner as is prescribed in clause 4.3.9 for payment for overtime worked.

4.3.11 An employee required to work overtime which is not continuous with ordinary duty shall receive a minimum of 3 hours payment in respect of that overtime notwithstanding the period of duty may be less than 3 hours.

4.3.12 Where more than one overtime attendance is involved the minimum payment provision shall not operate to increase the overtime payment beyond that which would have been payable had the employee remained on duty from the time of commencing one attendance to the time of ceasing a subsequent attendance.

4.3.13 Rest relief after overtime:

(a) An employee required to work so much overtime that there is not break of at least 10 consecutive hours plus reasonable travelling time between the cessation of one period of duty and the commencement of the next ordinary period of duty shall be released after completion of the overtime duty for a period of not less than 10 consecutive hours plus reasonable travelling time and such release shall be without any loss of pay for scheduled ordinary duty occurring during such absence.

(b) An employee required by a Student Union to resume or continue work without having had at least 10 consecutive hours plus reasonable travelling time off duty shall be paid at ordinary rate plus 100% until released from duty for not less than 10 consecutive hours plus reasonable travelling time off duty and such release shall be without loss of pay for any scheduled ordinary duty occurring during such absence.

(c) For the purpose of this clause "reasonable travelling time" shall mean the period of time normally required to travel from the place of residence of the employee to the Student Union and back.

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