AP834748 - Industrial Catering, Cleaning and Incidental Services (AWU and LHMU) Award 2000
31.1 Every employee shall be entitled to a meal break of not less than one half hour nor more than one hour, after not more than five ordinary hours of work. Such meal break shall not be taken before completing one hour and 30 minutes of work. Where it is not possible for the employer to grant a meal break on any day the said meal break shall be treated as time worked and the employee shall be paid double time from the time when the meal break was due to be commenced until such time as the employee is released for a meal.
31.2 In addition to breaks for a meal, there may be one other break of at least two hours during each shift. Such break may include a meal break.
31.3 On each day the employer shall allow, without deduction of wages, two rest breaks of 7-1/2 minutes duration, during ordinary working hours to each employee. The employer shall stipulate the time for taking such breaks.
31.4 An employee who is required to commence overtime immediately after working ordinary hours for the day shall be allowed a meal break of twenty minutes, paid at ordinary rates, prior to commencing such overtime. This provision does not apply to any employee where the overtime to be performed is less than one and one half hours. An employee shall be allowed a meal break of twenty minutes, without deduction of wages, after each four hours of overtime worked. The provisions of this clause may be varied by agreement in writing between the Union and the employer concerned.
