AT807604 - Print Centre (Canberra Times) Award 2000 [Transitional]
18.1 All employees shall be allowed not less than 30 minutes nor more than one hour for a meal. In the case of a time worker on intermediate or night shift work (including a casual time worker) the meal break shall count as time worked.
18.2 Except as otherwise provided by this clause an employee shall not be required to work for more than five hours without a break for a meal.
18.3 An employee may be required to continue working for more than five hours without a meal break, but all time worked shall be paid for at the appropriate overtime rates until such time as a meal break is taken. Provided that where, in the opinion of the employer's representative, the work on which an employee is engaged is on the current edition and can be completed within half an hour, an employee who has worked for five hours may be required to postpone the employee's meal break for a period up to half an hour without penalty.
18.4 Employees engaged on the publishing work of a Sunday newspaper shall be allowed a meal break of not less than half an hour at a time which in the opinion of the man in charge of the staff will best suit the exigencies of the work.
[18.5 varied by PR942192 PR954598 PR964774 PR975329; PR984329 ppc 23Oct08]
18.5 A meal allowance of $17.77 shall be paid to an employee on each occasion such employee is entitled to a second meal break in the course of a period of work.
