AT805114CRV - Federal Meat Industry (Retail and Wholesale) Award 2000 [Transitional]
26.1 Shifts may be worked on any work covered by this award.
26.2 The ordinary hours of work for a shift worker shall be 38 hours per week to be worked in five shifts of 7.6 hours each. Such shifts will be worked on five days, except where a night shift is in operation in which case the night shift may finish no later than 9.00 a.m. on Saturday morning.
26.3 Transfer of an employee from day work to shift work, or from shift work to day work, will be by agreement between the employer and the employee.
26.4 Shifts may be worked on a one-shift, two-shift or three-shift system.
26.5 For the purposes of this clause:
26.5.1 Afternoon shift means any shift commencing at 2.00 p.m. or after and finishing at or before midnight.
26.5.2 Night shift means any shift finishing subsequent to midnight and at or before 9.00 a.m.
26.5.3 Fixed night shift means a night shift on which an employee is not allowed to rotate so as to give the employee at least one week in each three consecutive weeks on some other shift or shifts.
26.5.4 Day shift in a three-shift system means any shift finishing at or after 2.00 p.m. and at or before 4.00 p.m.
26.6 Shift allowances
26.6.1 An employee on afternoon shift will be paid the appropriate rate for the classification in which the employee is employed under this award, plus 15% thereof.
26.6.2 An employee on night shift will be paid the appropriate rate for the classification in which the employee is employed under this award, plus 25% hereof.
26.6.3 An employee on a fixed night shift will be paid the appropriate rate for the classification in which the employee is employed under this award, plus 30% thereof.
26.6.4 A shiftworker who works on an afternoon shift which does not continue for at least five successive afternoon or night shifts shall be paid for each such shift 50% for the first three hours thereof and 100% for the remaining hours thereof in addition to this ordinary rate.
26.6.5 A casual employee employed in shift work will receive the appropriate percentage loading (shift allowance) prescribed in this subclause and an additional 20% casual loading (as prescribed by 9.4.3 of this award) of the appropriate award rate (i.e. not inclusive of the shift percentage in 26.6).
26.7 Meal intervals
A shift worker except when engaged on a three-shift system, may either be allowed:
26.7.1 a meal interval of no less than 30 minutes; or
26.7.2 a crib time of 30 minutes after working five hours, which will be counted as time worked to be taken at a time agreed between the employer and a majority of employees.
26.8 The starting and finishing times of the ordinary hours of work of shift workers shall be fixed by the employer and once fixed may only be altered by agreement between the employer and employees concerned in accordance with clause 8 - Facilitative provisions or, in the absence of such agreement, by the giving of not less than seven day’s notice by the employer to each employee of such proposed change of times. This subclause does not apply to an employee who is required to alter their starting time to enable the management to make provision for replacement but the employee will be given at least 24 hours notice of the change unless the employee otherwise agrees.
26.9 Employees engaged on a three-shift system will rotate between shifts unless otherwise agreed between the employer and employees.
