AT805114CRV - Federal Meat Industry (Retail and Wholesale) Award 2000 [Transitional]
24.1 Meal breaks
24.1.1 No employee will work for longer than five hours without a 30 minute unpaid meal break, unless otherwise agreed by the employee.
24.1.2 Any employee called upon to work during a meal interval will be paid at overtime rates for that period.
24.2 Interruption of work
If an interruption of work for any cause occurs within twenty minutes of the commencement of a break or within twenty minutes of a normal meal break, the employer may direct that the paid break or meal break be taken forthwith. Provided that where there is a breakdown of machinery within one hour of the time of the normal meal, the employer may require employees to have their meal break at an earlier time.
