AP822941 - Health Employees (Dental Health Services) Award 2003

11. REGULAR PART TIME EMPLOYMENT

[11 substituted by PR906139 from 02Jul01]

11.1 An employee may be regularly employed to work less hours per week than those prescribed for a full-time employee.

11.2 Regular part time employees will be remunerated at a weekly rate pro rata to the rate prescribed for the class of work in which they are employed.

11.3 An employer may employ regular part time employees in any classification his award.

11.4 At the time of engagement the employer and regular part time employee will agree in writing, on a regular pattern of work, specifying at least the hours of work each day, which days of the week the employee will work and the actual starting and finishing times each day.

11.5 Any agreed variation to the regular pattern of work will be recorded in writing.

11.6 The employer must give the employee one days clear notice, during any roster period, of a proposed increase in hours. If the employee agrees to the increase in hours, then for the remainder of that roster the increased hours shall be considered to be the employee's ordinary hours of work.

11.7 An employer is required to roster a regular part time employee for a minimum of three consecutive hours on any shift. Exceptions to this clause are;

11.7.1 Where special circumstances exist as agreed between the employer, the employee and the union, a period less than three hours shall apply; or

11.7.2 Where that shift is for the provision of home and community care (HACC) duties within a rural health service, and where the regular client need is less than three hours the minimum shall be one hour per shift.

11.8 An employee who does not meet the definition of a regular part time employee and who is not a full time employee will be paid as a casual employee in accordance with clause 13.5.

11.9 All time worked in excess of the hours as mutually arranged, will be overtime and paid for at the rates prescribed in Clause 17 - Overtime, of this award.”