AP811245 - Timber Industry – CFMEU Wood Panels – Award 2000
30.1 Hours - other than continuous shifts
Unless otherwise determined by agreement in accordance with clause 11 - Consultative mechanisms and procedures in the workplace, the following provisions shall apply:
30.2.1 The ordinary hours of work fixed by agreement in accordance with clause 11 - Consultative mechanisms and procedures in the workplace, shall not exceed an average of 38 per week. Different methods of working shifts may apply to various groups or sections of employees in an establishment.
30.2.2 Notwithstanding the provisions of this award, conditions applicable to the working of ordinary time shifts in excess of eight hours per shift shall be as agreed between the company and the union.
For the purpose of this clause:
30.3.1 Afternoon shift means any shift finishing after 6.00 p.m. and at or before midnight.
30.3.2 Continuous shift work means work carried on with consecutive shifts of persons throughout the 24 hours of each of at least seven consecutive days without interruptions except during breakdowns or meal breaks or due to unavoidable causes beyond the control of the employer.
30.3.3 Night shift means any shift finishing subsequent to midnight and at or before 8.00 a.m.
30.3.4 Rostered shift means a shift of which the employee concerned has had at least 48 hours notice.
30.3.5 A working day shall be defined as commencing with the beginning of the day shift and as ending with the completion of the night shift, so that the night shift shall be paid for as if worked on the previous day of the calendar week.
30.4 Payment for ordinary shifts
30.4.1 Day shift
An employee working on day shift shall be paid at ordinary rates.
30.4.2 Afternoon shift
An employee working on afternoon shift shall be paid fifteen per cent more than the ordinary rate.
30.4.3 Night shift - rotating
An employee working on night shift which rotates with another shift shall be paid fifteen per cent more than the ordinary rate.
30.4.4 Night shift - non-rotating
An employee who, other than at the employees own request works night shifts only shall be paid thirty per cent more than the ordinary rate.
30.4.5 Shifts worked for part of week
A shift worker who works an afternoon or night shift which does not continue for at least five afternoons or nights in a five day workshop or for at least six successive afternoons or nights in a seven day workshop shall be paid for each shift 50 per cent for the first two hours thereof and 100 per cent for the remaining hours thereof in addition to the ordinary rate.
30.5 Day worker changing to shift work
In the event of a day worker commencing afternoon or night shift work at the instruction of the employer without seven days notice the employer shall pay time and one half rates for all ordinary time worked until such seven days notice would have expired. Such extra rate shall be in substitution for the shift allowance.
Employees placed on the shift roster shall not be changed by the employer without 48 hours notice of such change or payment will be made at time and one half rates for ordinary time worked until such 48 hours notice would have expired. Such extra rate shall be in substitution for the shift allowance.
Employees shall be given at least seven days notice of cessation of the shift roster. If such notice is not given the appropriate shift allowance set out in this clause shall apply to ordinary time worked until such seven days notice would have expired.
30.8 Rostered day off falling on a public holiday
An employee who works shift work and who, by the circumstances of the arrangement of the employees ordinary hours of work, is entitled to a rostered day off which falls on a public holiday, prescribed by clause 37 - Public holidays, shall by mutual agreement between the employer and the majority of employees concerned be paid for that day one fifth of the ordinary weekly rate of pay or have an additional day added to the employees annual leave.
Notwithstanding anything contained elsewhere in this award, in any area where, by reason of the legislation of a State, summer time is prescribed as being in advance of the standard time of that State and the length of any shift:
30.9.1 Commencing before the time prescribed by the relevant legislation for the commencement of a summer time period, and
30.9.2 Commencing on or before the time prescribed by such legislation for the termination of a summer time period, shall be deemed to be the number of hours represented by the difference between the time recorded by the clock at the beginning of the shift and the time so recorded at the end thereof, the time of the clock in each case to be set at the time fixed pursuant to the relevant State legislation.
30.9.3 In this clause the expression “standard time” and “summer time” shall bear the same meaning as prescribed by the relevant State legislation.
