AP799690 - Transport Workers’ (Oil Companies) Award 1998
17.1 Meal break - day workers
An unpaid meal break of 30 minutes will be given and may be taken at a time convenient to the operation of the business and in accordance with national driving hours regulations. An employee will not be required to work for more than five hours without a meal break.
17.2 Crib break - shift workers
For all periods of work over four hours, a shift worker will be entitled to a paid crib break of thirty minutes to be taken at a time convenient to work requirements.
17.3 Meal allowance - all workers
[Sec II:17.3.1 varied by PR908253 PR918890 PR934637 PR948274 PR961444 PR975508 PR978817; PR983385 ppc 01Oct08]
17.3.1 The allowance paid for meals where stated in this award is $11.06.
17.3.2 Any employee required to work overtime for more than one and a half hours immediately after usual finishing time, (other than because of their own default or delay), will be paid a meal allowance.
17.3.3 Notwithstanding the provisions of 17.3.2 hereof, an employee shall be paid a meal allowance after each four hours of continuous overtime worked, provided such work continues.
17.3.4 An employee called in on any day, one and a half hours or more before their normally starting time shall be paid a meal allowance. This payment will not apply in respect of change to regular starting times for which seven days notice has been provided.
17.3.5 Any employee who is called to work on a holiday will be paid either:
17.3.5(a) where work continues for more than nine and a half hours, a meal allowance, and after each subsequent four hours of continuous work a further meal allowance provided the work continues.
17.3.5(b) where the work is extended unexpectedly beyond the time when the employee would ordinarily be expected to partake of a meal on any such day, a meal allowance, for the first meal and any subsequent meal.
17.3.6 A day worker, or a shift worker on other than seven-day shifts, required to work on a Saturday or Sunday (not being a day ordinarily required to work) will, after the first four hours of continuous overtime work, be paid a meal allowance provided the work continues.
For each additional four hours continuous overtime worked the employee will be paid a subsequent meal allowance, provided the work continues.
This payment need not be made to an employee living in the same locality as the work place who can reasonably return home for a meal.
17.3.7 Disregarding the provisions of 17.3.4 and 17.3.5 hereof, a delivery driver, required by the employer to commence work at, or before, 5.30 a.m. on a Saturday, Sunday or a holiday prescribed in clause 20 - Weekends and public holidays of this award, will be paid a meal allowance.
This payment shall not apply in respect of changes to regular starting times for which at least seven days’ notice has been given.
17.3.8 Allowances under this clause will not apply:
17.3.8(a) when the employer provides a suitable meal as an alternative to payment of the meal allowance; or
17.3.8(b) when an employee receives expenses covering meals under the provisions of Part II of the award.
