AT817064 - Residential Aged Care (Hostels) Award 2002 [Transitional]
17.1 No employee shall work more than five hours without a meal break except that, by agreement between the employer and employee, the employee may work up to six hours without a meal break.
17.2 Meal breaks shall not be less than 30 minutes.
17.3 Meal breaks shall not be counted as time worked unless the employee is:
17.3.1 called on duty; or
17.3.2 required to be on call;
during the meal break in which case the time worked or spent on call, as the case may be, shall be counted in the ordinary working hours of the shift.
17.4 Morning and afternoon tea breaks of not more than seven minutes shall be allowed without deduction of pay at a time convenient to the employer. By agreement between the employer and employee the tea breaks may be combined and taken as one fifteen minute tea break at a mutually convenient time.
17.5 No more than three breaks (including the meal break) shall be allowed in any one shift.
